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

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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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...

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

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

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

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...

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their...

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their...

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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

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

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

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

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

He who integrates is lost.

He who integrates is lost.

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...