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- Be Different
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- Look
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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
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No emancipation without that of society.
- Domination
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Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
- Love
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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
- He
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
- Become
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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
- Love Is
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Good Man
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
- Poor
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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
- Left
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
- Logic
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
- Individual
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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
- Human
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
- Joke
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
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Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
- Grow
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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
- Horror
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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
- Early
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He who matures early lives in anticipation.
- Peace
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
- Lie
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Obsolete
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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
- Chaos
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Lost
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He who integrates is lost.
- Humanity
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
- Love
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There is no love that is not an echo.
- Moment
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
- Now
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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
- Industry
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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
- Intelligence
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Intelligence is a moral category.
- Laughter
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He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
- Eye
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
- People
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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
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The whole is the false.
- Always
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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
- Nothing
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
- Own
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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Normality
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Normality is death.
- Good
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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
- Glorification
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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
- Differences
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
- Deliverance
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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
- Intelligence
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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
- Black And White
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
- Individuality
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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
- Name
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- More
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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.
- Always
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Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
- Language
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
- Crime
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- Anti-Semitism
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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
- Hand
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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
- Fascism
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
- Quality
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