5 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Productivity

Theodor Adorno quotes on productivity

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.'

16. 'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'

40. 'If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.'

41. 'If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.'

135. 'Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.'