The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

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.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

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