Quote #43

'In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.'
  2. 'In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.'
  3. '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…
  4. 'In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.'
  5. 'If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.'
  6. 'In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.'
  7. 'Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.'
  8. 'In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence.'

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