Quote #38

'History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. '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…
  2. 'Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.'
  3. '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…
  4. 'If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.'
  5. 'He who matures early lives in anticipation.'
  6. '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 stra…
  7. 'He who integrates is lost.'
  8. 'In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.'

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