Quote #62

'No emancipation without that of society.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.'
  2. 'No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.'
  3. 'Mind arose out of existence, as an organ for keeping alive. In reflecting existence, however, it becomes at the same time something else. …
  4. 'None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.'
  5. 'Metaphysical categories are not merely an ideology concealing the social system; at the same time they express its nature, the truth about…
  6. 'Normality is death.'
  7. 'Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.'
  8. 'Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.'

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