Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

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

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.