The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.