Quote #63

'No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'No emancipation without that of society.'
  2. 'None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.'
  3. 'Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.'
  4. 'Normality is death.'
  5. 'Mind arose out of existence, as an organ for keeping alive. In reflecting existence, however, it becomes at the same time something else. …
  6. 'Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.'
  7. 'Metaphysical categories are not merely an ideology concealing the social system; at the same time they express its nature, the truth about…
  8. 'Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.'

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