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

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.