Theodor W. Adorno

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.