Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

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.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.