No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener..

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed..

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule..

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future..

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death..

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride….

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them..

History breaks down into images, not into stories..

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation..

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector..

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well..

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place wher….

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments..

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright..

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays..

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism..

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. H….

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself..

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope..