Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

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.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

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

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.