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Inspirational Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
- A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
- Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
- Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
- He who matures early lives in anticipation.
- Intelligence is a moral category.
- Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
- In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
- Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
- Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
- Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
- The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
- Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
- Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
- In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
- The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
- There is no love that is not an echo.
- If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
- Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
- Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
- The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento