In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.