Jazz is what it is used for

not what it is.
If you die in despair you’ve

lived your life in vain.
Thought is not solving problems:

this is perversion.
Thought is coerced by logic:

this is perversion.
Estrangement removes

the distance between people.
Every work of art is

an unacted crime.
Exuberant health

is a sickness.
Happiness is obsolete,

uneconomic.
Those with laughter on their side

have no need of proof.
The person who betrays love

damages the past.
Who matures early

lives in anticipation.
History uses language

and takes place in it.
Horror is beyond the reach

of psychology.
The weak see time left to live

as a brief reprieve.
Truth in psychology is

exaggeration.
Praise of the underdog is

praise of the system.
Intelligence is a class

of morality.
Life is the ideology

of its own absence.
Love sees similarity

in the dissimilar.
When in love, you show weakness, and

do not provoke strength.
If society’s not free.

a person’s not free.
Thought is a contradiction

without emotion.
The poor and hungry chew words

to fill their bellies.
Art contains alternatives

and so masters them.
Technology is and makes men

precise and brutal.
Culture counterfeits

customer reactions.
Sexual ethics: the accuser

is always in the wrong.
The gods look in pleasure on

penitent sinners.
A good man is modeled on

material power.
When they imitate humans

humans are humans.
The task of art is to bring

chaos to order.
Thinking checks at each moment

whether one can think.
Self-consciousness is knowing

that one is nothing.
True thoughts are those which do not

understand themselves.
That deliverance will come

is illusory.