The best Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

The best Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Negative Dialectics

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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

Negative dialectics ... does not presuppose the identity of being and thought, nor does it culminate in that identity. Instead it will attempt to articulate the very opposite, namely the divergence of concept and thing, subject and object.

Negative Dialectics

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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

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Love Relationships

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Jewish communities are warning their members to avoid specific places for their own safety - today, here in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust.

Robert Habeck - November 2023

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Israel was created exactly 70 years ago as a haven for refugees from the Holocaust. But the mistreatment of those suffering from today's atrocities is simply not in line with my Jewish values.

Natalie Portman - April 2018

Israel Holocaust

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Garden Libraries

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness Present

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness Minutes

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

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Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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Snow Winter Coldness

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Foolishness Quotes to think about

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

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Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

I fear nothing - nothing - but the boundaries of your love.

Friedrich Schiller in Intrigue and Love

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Love declerations

Big results require big ambitions.

Ambition Motivation

The sun is new each day.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Objectives Motivation

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Crying & Tears Mind vs. Heart

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Only love and death change all things.

Kahlil Gibran

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