The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only be…

Theodor Adorno
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The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.154, Verso
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.132, Verso
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.40, Verso
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human … ▶
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Music, p.81, Univ of California Press
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of … ▶

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.154, Verso

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