"The man for whom time stretches out painfully……" — Theodor Adorno
"The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday."
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145 Quotes by Theodor Adorno
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- Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
- The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things…
- A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent…
- Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
- Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed…
- He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.