Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

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 most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

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