11 quotes
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Minima Moralia (1951)
The coming extinction of art is prefigured in the increasing impossibility of representing historical events.
Minima Moralia (1951)
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.
Minima Moralia (1951)
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Minima Moralia (1951)
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
Minima Moralia (1951)
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Minima Moralia (1951)
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Minima Moralia (1951)
Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of the free spirits no longer write for an imaginary posterity, ... but only for the dead God?
Minima Moralia (1951)
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Minima Moralia (1951)
All the world's not a stage.
Minima Moralia (1951)
Marriage as a community of interests unfailingly means the degradation of the interested parties, and it is the perfidy of the world's arrangements that no one, even if aware of it, can escape such degradation. The idea might therefore be entertained that marriage without ignominy is a possibility reserved for those spared the pursuit of interests, for the rich. But the possibility is purely formal, for the privileged are precisely those in whom the pursuit of interests has become second-nature—they would not otherwise uphold privilege.
Minima Moralia (1951)