Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

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• For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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• Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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• The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

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• Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

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• Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

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• History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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• Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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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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• No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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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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• The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

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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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• The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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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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• 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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• Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

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• A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

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• The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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• Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

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Theodor W. Adorno (88)

Birth:	11th September, 1903
Death:	6th August, 1969
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher, Sociologist

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