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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

Intelligence is a moral category.



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Intelligence has value only in the service of love.




Quotes for: intelligence


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Quotes about intelligence:


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





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





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





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.











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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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