5 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Happiness

Theodor Adorno quotes on happiness

7. '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.'

31. 'Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.'

36. '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.'

72. 'Psychology repeats in the case of properties what was done to property. It expropriates the individual by allocating him its happiness.'

84. '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.'