“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.” — Theodor Adorno
“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” — Theodor Adorno
“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.” — 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
“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.” — Theodor Adorno
“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
“Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.” — Theodor Adorno
“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.” — Theodor Adorno
“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.” — Theodor Adorno
“The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.” — Theodor Adorno
“The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.” — Theodor Adorno
“He who integrates is lost.” — Theodor Adorno