Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Theodor W. Adorno

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkQualityWithinDepthMasters

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Jennifer Connelly

NatureGrowing UpGrowingKindMore

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anatole Broyard

BeginningStartEndFindBeing Human

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

John Niven

ChildrenEyesHatePeopleEndKind

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

Michael Rosbash

RandomEnvironmentEventsInheritance

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Josiah Stamp

PowerGovernmentStatisticsPrepare

Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.

Jose Angel Gurria

FutureLongSustainabilityDepend

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Jonas Armstrong

PathStartThoughtActingDownGo

Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.

Desiigner

TalentDoingAuditionsShowsChoirs

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Dennis Cardoza

TimeInsuranceCrisisNowNothing

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

Artur Davis

GovernmentAmericaWorryYouParty

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

Alistair Horne

MistakeSupportStrongMoodHand

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Plato

KnowledgeMindHoldWhichCompulsion

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