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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor Adorno
Lies
Opinion
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno
Life
Absence
Ideology
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno
Love
Power
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno
Love
Strength
May
Will
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Theodor Adorno
Modernity
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor Adorno
Men
Technology
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor Adorno
Harm
Man
Spirit
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor Adorno
Art
Chaos
Order
Today
Normality is death.
Theodor Adorno
Death
Normality
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno
Society
Existence
Self
Sense
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno
Thought
Emotion
Nothing
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
Death
People
Humanity
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno
Hunger
Language
Poor
Words
No emancipation without that of society.
Theodor Adorno
Society
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
Thought
Logic