Quote #47

'In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.'
  2. 'In the end the tough guys are the truely effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like…
  3. 'In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.'
  4. 'In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.'
  5. 'In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.'
  6. 'In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vege…
  7. 'In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.'
  8. 'Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. '

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