社会学的功能，如同每一门科学一样，是揭示隐藏的事物。

Coal isn't the problem - how we use it is. The solution lies in cleaner technologies and better utilization.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Escribir es una forma de terapia. A veces me pregunto cómo se las arreglan los que no escriben, los que no componen música o los que no pintan.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it adjusts them.

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not trying.