Theodor W. Adorno Quotes
73 Theodor W. Adorno quotes:
"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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"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
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"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated."
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"Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."
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"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
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"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology."
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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."
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"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."
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"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'."
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"In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations."
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"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
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"Intelligence is a moral category."
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"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
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"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
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"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."
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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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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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