Normality is death.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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

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

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all...

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all...

No emancipation without that of society.

No emancipation without that of society.

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

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

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

The whole is the false.

The whole is the false.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one...

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one...

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to...

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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

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

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

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

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of...

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of...

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

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

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

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

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

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.