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

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

Self-Discipline

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

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

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

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

" The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. "

" Intelligence is a moral category. "

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

" Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. "

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

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

" The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Black And White

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "