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Theodor Adorno  Quotes
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

—Theodor Adorno

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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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He who matures early lives in anticipation.

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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

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There is no love that is not an echo.

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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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No emancipation without that of society.

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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

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Normality is death.

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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

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To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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He who integrates is lost.

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

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In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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