Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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 good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his...

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his...

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Normality is death.

Normality is death.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own...

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.

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...

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.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants....

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants....

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the...

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the...

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of...

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of...