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• Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

  Theodor Adorno

  Categories, Modernity, Qualitative

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.218, Verso

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• To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Hate, Peculiar

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.78, Verso

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

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  Mean, Break Through, Coercion

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

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  Fear, Discovery, Self

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.200, Verso

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• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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  Empathy, Imitating Others, Imitation

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.154, Verso

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• What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.

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  Life, Substance, Spheres

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.15, Verso

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• In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

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  Joy, Kitsch, Shameless

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• The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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  Sad, Suicide, Intention

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.141, Verso

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• Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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  Art, Domination, Folks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.204, Verso

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• The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

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  Powerful, Names, Pockets

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.128, Verso

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• 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.

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  Doe, Use, Rubber

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• There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

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  Lying, Silence, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.161, Stanford University Press

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• The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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  Men, Good Man, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.185, Verso

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• He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

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  Betrayal, Past, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.166, Verso

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• The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

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  Aspiration, Totality, Exclusive

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.79, Verso

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• The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

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  Art, Kitsch, Imitation

  Theodor W. Adorno, Richard D. Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music: Theodor W. Adorno ; Selected, with Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Richard Leppert ; New Translations by Susan H. Gillespie”, p.364, Univ of California Press

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• None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

  Theodor Adorno

  Utopia, Abstract, Fulfilled

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.157, Verso

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• Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

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  Discovery, Self, Individual

  Theodor W. Adorno (2015). “Introduction to Sociology”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

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  Past, Catastrophe, Ifs

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

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  Running, Believe, Risk

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

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  Past, Kitsch, Helping

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.363, Univ of California Press

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• Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Sound, Jargon

  Theodor Adorno (2013). “The Jargon of Authenticity”, p.6, Routledge

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• In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

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  Order, Feelings, Culture

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• Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Bargains, Concepts

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Entwined, Existence

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.154, Verso

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