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Theodor W. Adorno

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Biography - Theodor W. Adorno:

German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist and composer.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1969
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.


Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Tu n'es aimé que lorsque tu peux te montrer faible sans provoquer une réaction de force.

German
Geliebt wirst du einzig, wo du schwach dich zeigen darfst, ohne Stärke zu provozieren.




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Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.




Quotes for: love


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Quotes about love:


Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.





Love, and do what you will.











Quotes for: strength


Quotes

Quotes about strength:


Consciousness of our powers augments them.





I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.





On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.





...and nobody knows the extent of his strength until he has tried.





There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.





Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.











Quotes for: weakness


Quotes

Quotes about weakness:


No man is weak by choice.





What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.





Tolerance is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.











Quotes

Theodor W. Adorno also said...


Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.





No improvement is too small or trivial to be worthwhile.





Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.





Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.





Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.





Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.












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