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.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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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.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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.

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

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

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

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

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

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

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The whole is the false.

The whole is the false.

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

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

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...

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has...

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has...

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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

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