One-dimensional Thought Is Systematically Promoted By The

Nobody Really Thinks Who Does Not Abstract From That Which Is Given, Who Does Not Relate The Facts To The Factors Which Have Made Them, Who Does Not - In His Mind - Undo The Facts. Abstractness Is The Very Life Of Thought, The Token Of Its Authenticity.

Art Breaks Open A Dimension Inaccessible To Other Experience, A Dimension In Which Human Beings, Nature, And Things No Longer Stand Under The Law Of The Established Reality Principle...the Encounter With The Truth Of Art Happens In The Estranging Language And Images Which Make Perceptible, Visible, And Audible That Which Is No Longer, Or Not Yet, Perceived, Said, And Heard In Everyday Life.

The Way In Which A Society Organizes The Life Of Its Members ... Is One "project" Of Realization Among Others. But Once The Project Has Become Operative In The Basic Institutions And Relations, It Tends To Become Exclusive And To Determine The Development Of The Society As A Whole.

The Closed Language Does Not Demonstrate And Explain It Communicates Decision, Dictum, Command. Where It Defines, The Definition Becomes "separation Of Good From Evil;" It Establishes Unquestionable

The Avant-garde And The Beatniks Share In The Function Of Entertaining Without Endangering The Good Conscience Of The Men Of Good Will.