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.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.