The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home, " I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you, " he says.

tears, love, life Who knows how many tears have flown in the Word of God from the creation of the world?

Be Patient to become a Patent

Dragons didn’t fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster’s body parts.

There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.

Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.

If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

We had a love-hate relationship. Jackie knew exactly what she could get out of one of my photos.

We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.