German - Philosopher | September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor W. Adorno
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
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He who integrates is lost.
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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