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" Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. "
Theodor Adorno
Nothing
Been
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" In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. "
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" Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. "
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" Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. "
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" The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. "
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" An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. "
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" Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. "
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" The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. "
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Person
" A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. "
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Someone
" Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. "
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" Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. "
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Always
" Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. "
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" Life has become the ideology of its own absence. "
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" Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. "
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" The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. "
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" Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. "
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" 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. "
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" Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. "
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