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All the world's not a stage.

Theodor Adorno

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The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
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Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
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The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
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It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
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In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.
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Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
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Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
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There is no love that is not an echo.
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In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.
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On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
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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.
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Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
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The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.
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In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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