German - Philosopher | September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor W. Adorno
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He who matures early lives in anticipation.
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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
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Intelligence is a moral category.
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Normality is death.
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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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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.
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Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
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