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Theodor Adorno
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Theodor Adorno

“A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.”

- Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes: Variant: "Germans are human beings who can't tell a lie without believing it themselves." - Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (1951), Part 2, Aphorism 72
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Theodor Adorno

“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.”

- Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

“Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.”

- Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

“All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.”

- Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”

- Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes: Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (1951)
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Theodor Adorno

“Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.”

- Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes: Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (1951)
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Theodor Adorno

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

- Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”

- Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes: Prisms (1955), "Perennial Fashion - Jazz"
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Theodor Adorno

“Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.”

- Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes: Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (1951)
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Theodor Adorno

“But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.”

- Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

“Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.”

- Theodor Adorno

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“Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.”

- Theodor Adorno

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“Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.”

- Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno

“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”

- Theodor Adorno

Source/Notes: Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life (1951)
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