“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.”
— Theodor Adorno
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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
— Theodor Adorno
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An emancipated society, on the other hand,
“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”
— Theodor Adorno
Author: Theodor Adorno
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Love you will find only where you
“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
— Theodor Adorno
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Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief
“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
Author: Theodor Adorno
Category: truth
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He who stands aloof runs the risk
“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.”
— Theodor Adorno
Author: Theodor Adorno
Category: society
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A pencil and rubber are of more
“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 Adorno
Author: Theodor Adorno
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Normality is death.
“Normality is death.”
— Theodor Adorno
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Art is magic delivered from the lie
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
— Theodor Adorno
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Love is the power to see similarity
“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
— Theodor Adorno
Author: Theodor Adorno
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Love is the power to see similarity
“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
— Theodor Adorno
Author: Theodor Adorno
Category: love
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