Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

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