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Theodor W. Adorno (/əˈdɔːrnoʊ/; German: [aˈdɔʀno]; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.

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Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Nothing, Perhaps, Rage, Successfully, Talent

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Age, Being Yourself, Birthday, Individuality, Inspire, Raised

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Important, Linguistic, Noble, Nouns, Prohibitorum

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Believe, Believing, Critique, Interest, Risk, Running

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

Free, Heritage, Normal, Ofthe, Way, Ways

It is incumbent upon philosophy. . . to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

Philosophical, Philosophy, Political, Provide, Refuge, Tendencies

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Choices, Everywhere, Hardest, Hardest Hit, Hit

Philosophy. . . must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

Bargain, Bargains, Concept, Concepts, Philosophy

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life, Absence, Ideology

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Allegory, Art, Broken, Creation, Creations, Creatures

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

Adapts, Culture, Customers, Reactions, Stupidity

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Belongs, Democracy, Destructiveness, Emotional, Source, Sources

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Happiness, Industry, Laughing, Mockery

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and social praxis as well as that within science itself, and allows no theory that could reveal the division of labor to be itself derivative and mediated and thus strip it of its false authority.

Derivatives, Division, Division Of Labor, Errors, Science, Standard

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Absorbed, Blind, Decay, Liberated, Satire

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Ends, Glorification, Splendid, Underdog, Underdogs

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Dissimilar, Love, Love Is, Power, Romance

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Formal, Goal, Legends, Philosophy, Regarding

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Basic, Energy, Keep, Levels, Political, Unconscious

The whole is the false.

False, Truth, Whole

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