The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Quote by Theodor Adorno
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
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Theodor Adorno Quotes
- Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
- Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
- 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.
- The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
- History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
- Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
- Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Best Quotes
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
- There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.