Quote #53

'It is not man's lapse into luxurious indolence that is to be feared, but the savage spread of the social under the mask of universal nature, the collective as a blind fury of activity.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Intelligence is a moral category.'
  2. 'Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'
  3. 'Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. '
  4. 'Life has become the ideology of its own absence.'
  5. 'In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vege…
  6. 'Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. '
  7. 'In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.'
  8. 'Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.'

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