Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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.
There is no love that is not an echo.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
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