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"18 Theodor W. Adorno Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 September 1903. Died: 6 August 1969 | philosopher | sociologist | psychologist |

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Intolerance Ambiguity Mark Authoritarian personality
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Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

Every work Art Uncommitted crime
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People know what they want because they know what other people want.

People Know what Want
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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Love Find Show yourself Weak
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There is no right life in the wrong one.

Right life Wrong one
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom Choose Black White
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art Magic Delivered Being truth
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Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Only thought Does violence Shatter myth
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Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Evil people Imagined dying
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There is no love that is not an echo.

No love An echo
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Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Laughing Cultural industry Mockery Happiness
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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

True thought Alone Understand themselves
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The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Art Reflect History More truthfully
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Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

World Exists Possible Enough afraid
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In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Innermost recesses Humanism Soul Frantic prisoner
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Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art Masses Confronting Conforming
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There is no true life within a false life.

True life Within False
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A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.
Landscape Uglier Admirer How beautiful
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Theodor W. Adorno Quotes & Sayings