Intelligence is a moral category.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

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

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.