"Today
it is seen as arrogant, alien and improper
to engage in private activity without any evident ulterior motive.
Not to be 'after' something is almost suspect."
#23-24
"Because thought has by now been perverted
into the solving of assigned problems,
even what is not assigned
is processed like a problem."
#196
"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."
#217
"History does not merely touch on language,
but takes place in it. "
#219
"He who integrates is lost. "
#240
"Only a humanity to whom death
has become as indifferent
as its members,
that has itself died,
can inflict it administratively
on innumerable people. "
#233
Theodor Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969)
# quotes from Minima Moralia
Reflections from the damaged life
Part One
1944