Theodor Adorno quotes - page 4

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. (Theodor 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.
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
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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.
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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
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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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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
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He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. (Theodor Adorno)
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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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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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
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There is no love that is not an echo.
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
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The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. (Theodor Adorno)
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
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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.
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Intelligence is a moral category.
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
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