Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of...

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of...

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden...

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden...

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed...

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed...

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...

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and...

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and...

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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

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

Normality is death.

Normality is death.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

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

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