The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. – Theodor Adorno
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. – Theodor Adorno
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. – Theodor Adorno
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. – Theodor Adorno
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. – Theodor Adorno
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. – Theodor Adorno
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. – Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno
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. – Theodor Adorno
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. – Theodor Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. – Theodor Adorno
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno
