Quote #30

'Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, abstracted as the proportion of fine metal, becomes a fetish.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.'
  2. 'Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.'
  3. 'For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.'
  4. 'He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.'
  5. 'Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.'
  6. 'He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.'
  7. 'Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.'
  8. 'He who integrates is lost.'

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