The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

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

There is no right life in the wrong one.

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

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

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.