The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.