Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical clichรฉ, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.