Theodor Adorno quotes
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
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.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level. The slave morality is indeed bad: it is still the master morality.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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