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

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.