Theodor Adorno Quotes
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. 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. The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. The whole is the false. There is no love that is not an echo. Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
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