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

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

" Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. "

" Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. "

" Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. "

Self-Discipline

" 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. "

" Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. "

" He who integrates is lost. "

" No emancipation without that of society. "

" Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. "

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

" Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. "

" 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. "

" Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. "

" Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. "

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

" The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. "

" Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. "

" Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. "

" 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 gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. "

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

" In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

" An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. "

" He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. "

" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "