Theodor Adorno Quotes on Thinking
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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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'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'
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'Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.'
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'Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.'
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'The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.'
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'Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.'
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'True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.'