Theodor Adorno Quotes (80 Quotes)
- Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
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- No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
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- Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
(Theodor Adorno)
- Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
(Theodor Adorno)
- He who integrates is lost.
(Theodor 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.
(Theodor Adorno)
- For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
(Theodor 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 Adorno)
- Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
(Theodor Adorno)
- The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
(Theodor Adorno)
- In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
(Theodor Adorno)
- But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
(Theodor Adorno)
- Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
(Theodor Adorno)
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
(Theodor Adorno)
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
(Theodor Adorno)
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