Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

He who integrates is lost.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

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