No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

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.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

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

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.