Die Glorifizierung der prächtigen underdogs läuft auf die des prächtigen Systems heraus, das sie dazu macht. - Theodor W. Adorno

Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.

It suffices to remember how many sorrows he is spared who no longer thinks too many thoughts, how much more "in accordance with reality" a person behaves when he affirms that the real is the right, how much more capacity to use the machinery falls to the person who integrates himself with it uncomplainingly.

... to promote precisely that manner of intellectual freedom that has no place in the regnant philosophical movements