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• Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Advice, Helping

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.136, Verso

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• Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Broken, Creation

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• If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

  Theodor Adorno

  Moral, Consideration, Parsimony

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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• Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

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  Lying, Deceit, Needs

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.30, Verso

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• Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

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  Real, One Day, Belief

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• So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

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  Hygiene, Irrelevance, Dying

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.232, Verso

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• The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

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  Revenge, Stupidity, Wish

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.122, Verso

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• Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Numbers, Enlightenment, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.7, Verso

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• The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

  Theodor Adorno

  Joy, Culture, Conflict

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.206, Verso

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• What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

  Theodor Adorno

  Nature, Use, Humans

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

  Theodor Adorno

  Auschwitz

  "How Poetry Can Be Written After Auschwitz" by Billy Mills, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2011.

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• Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

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  Inspirational, Self, Play

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.130, Verso

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• When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

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  Molotov Cocktail, People, Trying

  "The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950". Book by Martin Jay, p. 279, 1973.

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• The whole is the false.

  Theodor Adorno

  Truth, Whole

  Theodor W. Adorno, Richard D. Leppert (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

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  Love Is, Ability, Similarity

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• Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Cutting, Luxury

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.119, Verso

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• The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

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  Men, Desire, Usual

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• Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

  Theodor Adorno

  Thinking, Doe, Tasks

  Theodor W. Adorno (2003). “Adorno”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.

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  Blessing, Facts, Doe

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.9, Stanford University Press

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• Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

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  Revenge, Mind, Criticism

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.22, MIT Press

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• In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

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  Art, Doe, Facts

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• If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

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  Philosophy, Acquiescence, Way

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

  Theodor Adorno

  Success, Art, Thinking

  "Essays on Music".

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• It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Political

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.10, Columbia University Press

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• 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

  Problem

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.196, Verso

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