Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.