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
- Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
- The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
- No emancipation without that of society.
- None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
- Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- 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.
- Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Best Quotes
- I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
- It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Simple steps are complex when manouvering.
- A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
- If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
- Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
- According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.