Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969

Topics

TodayReflectionEgoNothingKnowing

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

John Liu

CityManagementPrivilegeOfficeHad

The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.

Jeff Minter

PeopleIndependenceYouDistanceBig

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

Robert Falcon Scott

DayEffortForgetNowMarchDiary

The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.

Lonnie Donegan

OrganizedJustHappenedShowsWere

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

FaithMeBelieveDoubtMoreHonest

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

Phil Robertson

ManMasterDegreeSomeMaybe

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

Peter Riegert

BestCompetitionYouBecomeStar

My mom is a history teacher, so we'd go on all these historic trips as kids around Halloween, because it was kind of creepy.

Sharon Van Etten

TeacherHistoryMomGoKindKids

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

Shelby Foote

GreatMistakesYourselfValueThink

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Seth Grahame-Smith

EducationMoneyTragedyPersonWill

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Thurston Moore

PoetryPeopleNowBandWithinTell

I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: 'What's the meaning of life? What if I don't like this job I've been programmed to do?'

Rich Moore

LifeLoveCharacterSimpleJobGame

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