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Normality is death.
The whole is the false.
He who integrates is lost.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
There is no love that is not an echo.
No emancipation without that of society.
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.