Author

Theodor Adorno

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“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”— Theodor Adorno
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“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”— Theodor Adorno
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“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”— Theodor Adorno
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“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”— Theodor Adorno
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“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Normality is death.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”— Theodor Adorno
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“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”— Theodor Adorno
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“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Intelligence is a moral category.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”— Theodor Adorno
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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”— Theodor Adorno
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“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”— Theodor Adorno
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“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”— Theodor Adorno
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“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”— Theodor Adorno
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“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”— Theodor Adorno
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“He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.”— Theodor Adorno