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Biography : German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist and composer.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1969
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Theodor W. Adorno - Quotes

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia /

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia /

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No improvement is too small or trivial to be worthwhile.
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor W. Adorno

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 W. Adorno

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor W. Adorno

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
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Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor W. Adorno

Intelligence is a moral category.
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intelligence

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.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor W. Adorno

No emancipation without that of society.
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society

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
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oneself

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
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Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
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health

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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society

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. Adorno

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 W. Adorno

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 W. Adorno

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor W. Adorno

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
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Normality is death.
Theodor W. Adorno

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