No emancipation without that of society.
Quote by Theodor Adorno
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No emancipation without that of society.
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Theodor Adorno Quotes
- The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
- Normality is death.
- Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
- 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.
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
- Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
- The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Best Quotes
- A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
- Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
- Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.