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Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Theodor W. Adorno

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone Man Spirit Outside Harm

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

People Thought American Never

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

Think Abstract Things I Think Fears

My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Life Love Mother Great Woman Sleep

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Suffering Believe Others Anything

When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view, in my judgment, will be to see it rather as a major episode in the recession of communism.

Freedom Communism Believe View True

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

Live Daughter Ocean World Say Want

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

Realistic Limitations Gifts Idea

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Education Sports Training People You

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.

Reading Internet Go Never Audience

In the late 20th century, it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease. So when you go back, you take the changed person with you who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.

Shyam Selvadurai

Great Travel World You Back Late

It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

Music People Free Doing Easy Lost

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Patience American Will Delays Public

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