Theodor Adorno
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level. The slave morality is indeed bad: it is still the master morality.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.