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

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Self-Discipline

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

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

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

" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "

" Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. "

" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

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

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

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

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

" No emancipation without that of society. "

" Normality is death. "

" Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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