The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Intelligence is a moral category.

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject