Theodor Adorno

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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.
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
No emancipation without that of society.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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.

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