The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.