3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno 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.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno 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.
3 December 2020 Theodor Adorno The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
