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.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.