Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

German - Philosopher | September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969

There is no love that is not an echo.

Theodor W. Adorno

LoveNo LoveEcho

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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ModernityCategoryQualitative

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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Black And WhiteFreedomChoicesBlack

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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PeaceUtopiaAbstractConceptsNone

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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IntelligenceAdviceYouRepresent

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

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CultureIndustryCustomersMuchThem

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

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ViolencePhysicalDominationWhich

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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AspirationExclusiveSpecificLacks

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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TruthArtLieMagicBeingDelivered

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Theodor W. Adorno

LovePowerLove IsSeeSimilarity

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.

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TimeMoneyMoralOthersOwnAbove

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Theodor W. Adorno

TodayReflectionEgoNothingKnowing

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