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All Quotes Collection
"Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion."
54
"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
27
"The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice."
52
"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
66
"The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes."
47
"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people."
47
"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."
47
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."
48
"The joke of our time is the suicide of intention."
43
"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
41
"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings."
47
"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."
70
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
26
"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."
45
"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."
49
"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
26
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
20
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
15
"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
48
"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
52
"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction."
43
"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also."
56
"Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination."
50
"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
56
"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."
51
"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."
43
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane."
22
"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
46
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences."
60
"All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire."
63
"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."
17
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
21
"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
19
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
19
"In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations."
51
"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."
48
"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."
47
"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."
21
"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
45
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
62
"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."
55
"He who matures early lives in anticipation."
50
"He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself."
46
"He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof."
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