Theodor Adorno ✓

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[Wikipedia] Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of

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• Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Dissimilar
• Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Inspirational
• Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Find
• 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… Able
• A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. Believe
• The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. Already Continuing
• Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Art
• Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. Conscious
• Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. Assigned
• He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. Happiness
• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Art
• Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Attempt
• Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Abjure
• Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Basic
• Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Advice
• Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Art
• He who matures early lives in anticipation. Anticipation
• Intelligence is a moral category. Categories
• Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. Anymore
• But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Despair
• In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. Funny
• Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. Concealed
• Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Funny
• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Autonomous
• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Art

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