Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (7)

"When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality."
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (6)

"He who matures early lives in anticipation."
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (5)

"Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain."
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (4)

"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live."
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (3)

"The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense."
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

[But then this is also the man who claimed that "He who integrates is lost".]

Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (2)

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)

Quote of the Day: Adorno Series (1)

"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."

Theodor Adorno (1903-69)