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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor Adorno
Discipline
Poor
Thinking
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno
Work
Play
Self
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Theodor Adorno
Quality
Actions
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
Truth
Belief
Day
Will
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor Adorno
Thoughts
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor Adorno
Ego
Embarrassment
Nothing
Reflection
Self
Today
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
Theodor Adorno
Insults
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor Adorno
Thinking
There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor Adorno
Love
Echo
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor Adorno
Life
Wrong
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor Adorno
Ideology
Pride
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor Adorno
Happiness
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
Theodor Adorno
Laughter
Proof
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Theodor Adorno
Love
Harm
Past
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor Adorno
Anticipation