Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

• Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Yourself, Find, Weak, Strength

• 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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  Tags in Seems, Own, Time, Moral, Straight

• The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Credit, Powerful, Able, Person

• When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

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  Topics in Stupid

  Tags in Quality, Action, Take

• The whole is the false.

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  Tags in False, Whole

• Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self-Discipline, Rule, Play, While

• All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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  Tags in Decay, Force

• In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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  Tags in Except, Analysis

• Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

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  Topics in Emotion

• Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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  Topics in Health

  Tags in Always, Sickness

• Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Violence

• Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rest, Violence

• He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Proof, Side, Need

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rubber, Battalion, Pencil, Use

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

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Differences, State, Realization

• 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 W. Adorno

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Real

• True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand

• In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Individuality, Individual, Raised, Must

• Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Most, Sense

• Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

  Theodor W. Adorno

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Problems

Theodor W. Adorno (88)

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

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