In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.
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.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.