Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

• Intelligence is a moral category.

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• Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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• If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

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• The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

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• Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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• In many people it is already an impertinence to say ‘I’.

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• The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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• Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

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• Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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• Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

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• None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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• In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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• The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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• Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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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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• Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

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• No emancipation without that of society.

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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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• Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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• Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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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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