Theodor Escherich Quotes

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own. ~ Theodor Adorno

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning ~ Theodor W. Adorno

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. ~ Theodor Reik

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. ~ Theodor Adorno

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust. ~ Theodor Haecker

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case. ~ Theodor Adorno

If you will it, it is no dream. ~ Theodor Herzl

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. ~ Theodor Reik

Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. ~ Theodor Adorno

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. ~ Theodor Adorno

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained. ~ Theodor Mommsen

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

The history of the knowledge of the phenomena of life and of the organized world can be divided into two main periods. For a long time anatomy, and particularly the anatomy of the human body, was the a and ? of scientific knowledge. Further progress only became possible with the discovery of the microscope. A long time had yet to pass until through Schwann the cell was established as the final biological unit. It would mean bringing coals to Newcastle were I to describe here the immeasurable progress which biology in all its branches owes to the introduction of this concept of the cell. For this concept is the axis around which the whole of the modem science of life revolves. ~ Paul R. Ehrlich

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it. ~ Theodor Adorno

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude. ~ Theodor Storm

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. ~ Theodor Adorno

Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end. ~ Theodor Herzl

Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which leads to knowledge is neutralized and used as a mere qualification on specific labor markets and to heighten to commodity value of the personality. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. ~ Emil Theodor Kocher

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. ~ Theodor Herzl

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline. ~ Theodor Adorno

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written. ~ Theodor Haecker

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. ~ Theodor Adorno

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation. ~ Theodor Herzl

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world. ~ Theodor Herzl

The whole is the false. ~ Theodor Adorno

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison. ~ Theodor W. Adorno

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. ~ Theodor Adorno

The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating. ~ Theodor Adorno

…if you cannot hate you cannot love. If you cannot bite you can not kiss. If you cannot curse you cannot bless. Who cannot be a good hater will be a poor lover. ~ Theodor Reik