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" History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. "

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" The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. "

" Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. "

" A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. "

" But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. "

" 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 his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. "

" None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. "

" Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. "

" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "

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

" Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. "

" If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. "

" Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. "

" He who integrates is lost. "

" The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. "

" All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. "

" Normality is death. "

" When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. "

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

" In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. "

" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. "

" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "

" The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. "