More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.'
  2. 'He who matures early lives in anticipation.'
  3. 'He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.'
  4. 'He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of…
  5. 'Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.'
  6. 'He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his priv…
  7. 'Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, a…
  8. 'History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.'

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