Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

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

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

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