Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.