Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

Self-Discipline

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

" To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. "

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

" No emancipation without that of society. "

" The whole is the false. "

" True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. "

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

" The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. "

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

" Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. "

" The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

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

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

" The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. "

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