The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

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

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.