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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno
Love, Power, Similarity
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor Adorno
Life, Cannot, Wrong
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.
Theodor Adorno
Powerful, Person, Others
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno
Love, Strength, Yourself
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor Adorno
Someone, Lie, Cannot
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno
Time, Waiting, Tomorrow
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor Adorno
Freedom, Black, Between
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Theodor Adorno
Work, Art, Crime
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
Theodor Adorno
Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno
Moral, Category
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor Adorno
Life, Whole, Despair
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
Through, Thought, Means
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor Adorno
Lives, Early, Matures
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor Adorno
Far, Less, Principle
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor Adorno
Thinking, Moment, Means
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Advice, Represent
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
Society, State, Hand
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno
Life, Become, Absence
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
Today, Nothing, Ego
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
Art, Different, Survive
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
Theodor Adorno
Love, Past, Loved
He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno
Lost
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno
Good, Power, Himself
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno
Art, Truth, Lie
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno
Conscious, Tact, Consists

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

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