Theodor Adorno Quotes on Happiness
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'A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.'
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'Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.'
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'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 consciousness to happiness is gratitude: in which lies its incomparable dignity.'
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'Psychology repeats in the case of properties what was done to property. It expropriates the individual by allocating him its happiness.'
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'The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.'