Quote #54

'Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. '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 natur…
  2. 'Life has become the ideology of its own absence.'
  3. 'Intelligence is a moral category.'
  4. 'Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. '
  5. 'Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. '
  6. 'Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.'
  7. 'In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vege…
  8. 'Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.'

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