Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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Famous Theodor Adorno Quotes
Source: Essays on Music
“For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.”
Source: Essays on Music
“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.”
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Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader
“Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.”
Source: Minima Moralia
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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.”
Source: Essays on Music
“The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“There is no love that is not an echo.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia
“The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
“Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”
Source: Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader
“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”
Source: Introduction to Sociology
“Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.”
Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment
Source: Prisms
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
“Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.”
Source: Essays on Music