The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.