Intelligence is a moral category.
Quote by Theodor Adorno
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Intelligence is a moral category.
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Theodor Adorno Quotes
- The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
- Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
- Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
- Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
- Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- Normality is death.
Best Quotes
- I'm a history nut.
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
- The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
- I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
- Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
- A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
- Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
- While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
- We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.