When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
From Theodor Adorno
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
No emancipation without that of society.
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