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

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

" Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. "

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

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

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

" Life has become the ideology of its own absence. "

" No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. "

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

" Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. "

" Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. "

Black And White

" The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Self-Discipline

" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "

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

" Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. "

" The whole is the false. "

" The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. "

" Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. "

" The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. "

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

" In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. "