Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Intelligence is a moral category.