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One Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
- Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
- Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
- Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
- Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
- 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…
- 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…
- The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to…
- Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And…
- A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by…
- To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
- The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves…
- So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
- The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own…
- To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to…
- Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the…
- It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be…
- There is no right life in the wrong one.
- One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
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