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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

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.



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Quotes for: History


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Quotes about history:


What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.





What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.





If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.











Quotes for: Language


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Quotes for: Language


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





The language of truth is simple.





Language is a source of misunderstanding.





Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.











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Theodor W. Adorno also said...


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





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.












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