7 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Thinking

Theodor Adorno quotes on thinking

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.'

18. 'Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.'

67. 'Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.'

107. 'The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.'

120. 'Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.'

126. 'True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.'