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Only Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
- Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
- Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
- Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
- The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
- There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which…
- 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…
- He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
- People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the…
- Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element…
- 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…
- Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of…
- And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but…
- To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to…
- 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…
- Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
- Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
- The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
- Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
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