Theodor Adorno
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“Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.” -Theodor Adorno
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“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 not have it, but is in it.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.” -Theodor Adorno
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“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.” -Theodor Adorno
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“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.” -Theodor Adorno
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“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 straight-forward.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Intelligence is a moral category.” -Theodor Adorno
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“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.” -Theodor Adorno
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“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 not have it, but is in it.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.” -Theodor Adorno
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“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.” -Theodor Adorno
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“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.” -Theodor Adorno
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. – Theodor Adorno
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In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. – Theodor Adorno
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