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

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.