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Minima Moralia (1951)
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
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Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.
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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
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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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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
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In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
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The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
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Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. It expels from movements all hesitation, deliberation, civility.
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Born:
September 11, 1903
Died:
August 6, 1969
(aged 65)
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