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Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.
— Theodor Herzl
Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.
— Theodor Svedberg
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
— Theodor Adorno
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
— Theodor Adorno
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
— Theodor Adorno
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
— Theodor Adorno
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
— Theodor Reik
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.
— Emil Theodor Kocher
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
— Theodor Adorno
Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.
— Theodor Herzl
Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
— Theodor Adorno
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
— Theodor W. Adorno
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
— Theodor Adorno
Pleasure principle, a psychoanalytical term coined by Gustav Theodor Fechner, a predecessor of Sigmund Freud
— Anonymous
In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
— Theodor Adorno
But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
— Theodor Mommsen
What is moral is self-evident.
— Friedrich Theodor Vischer
There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.
— Theodor Adorno
Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
— Theodor Fontane
Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
— Theodor Herzl
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
— Theodor Adorno
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.
— Theodor Herzl
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
— Theodor Herzl
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
— Theodor Adorno
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.
— Theodor Mommsen
The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.
— Theodor Adorno
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
— Theodor Adorno
In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.
— Theodor Mommsen
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
No person loving or admiring himself is alone.
— Theodor Reik
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
— Theodor Adorno
Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.
— Theodor Reik
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
— Theodor Adorno
The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy
— Theodor Adorno
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
— Theodor Adorno
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
— Theodor Adorno
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
— Theodor W. Adorno
To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.
— Theodor Reik
One should never begrudge deletions.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.
— Theodor Haecker
For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.
— Theodor Mommsen
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
— Theodor Schwenk
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
— Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
— Theodor Herzl
Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The body is a marvelous machine ... a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels
— Theodor Herzl
If you will it, it is no dream.
— Theodor Herzl
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
— Theodor Adorno
Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
— Theodor Adorno
You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.
— Carl Theodor Dreyer
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
— Theodor Reik
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
— Theodor Adorno
In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.
— Theodor Adorno
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.
— Theodor Billroth
When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
— Theodor Haecker
There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.
— Theodor Reik
Normality is death.
— Theodor Adorno
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
— Theodor Adorno
The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts - the cells.
— Theodor Schwann
The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.
— Theodor Herzl
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
— Theodor Adorno
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
— Theodor W. Adorno
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning
— Theodor W. Adorno
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
— Theodor Adorno
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
— Theodor Adorno
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.
— Theodor Adorno
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
— Theodor Adorno
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
— Theodor Adorno
In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.
— Theodor Reik
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
— Theodor Adorno
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
— Theodor Adorno
The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.
— Theodor Adorno
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
— Theodor W. Adorno
To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home
— Theodor W. Adorno
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
— Theodor Adorno
All the world's not a stage.
— Theodor Adorno
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
— Theodor Adorno
