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Own Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
- The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
- Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
- 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…
- The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
- What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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