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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Theodor W. Adorno

Normality is death.

Theodor W. Adorno

The whole is the false.

Theodor W. Adorno

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Theodor W. Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Theodor W. Adorno

No emancipation without that of society.

Theodor W. Adorno

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Theodor W. Adorno

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Theodor W. Adorno

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Theodor W. Adorno

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor W. Adorno

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Theodor W. Adorno

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

Theodor W. Adorno

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Theodor W. Adorno

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Theodor W. Adorno

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Theodor W. Adorno

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Theodor W. Adorno

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Theodor W. Adorno

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno