Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

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