Theodor Adorno Quotes
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. He who integrates is lost. He who matures early lives in anticipation. 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. History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. 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. In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. Intelligence is a moral category. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
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