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Theodor 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 Adorno

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: German
Born: September 11, 1903
Died: August 6, 1969

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He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno

The whole is the false.
Theodor Adorno

Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor Adorno

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor Adorno

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno

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Anything, Ego, Embarrassment, Impotence, Knowing, Longer, Means, Nothing, Realization, Reflection, Self-Consciousness, Today

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Anything, Ego, Embarrassment, Impotence, Knowing, Longer, Nothing, Realization, Reflection, Self-consciousness