If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all ones own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. – Theodor Adorno
In the age of the individuals liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. – Theodor Adorno
Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. – Theodor 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 Adorno
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. – Theodor Adorno
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. – Theodor 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 Adorno
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. – Theodor Adorno
No emancipation without that of society. – Theodor Adorno
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. – Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. – Theodor Adorno
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. – Theodor Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. – Theodor Adorno
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. – Theodor Adorno
Intelligence is a moral category. – Theodor Adorno
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. – Theodor Adorno
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. – Theodor Adorno
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno
