The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

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