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Quote by Theodor Adorno
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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

Other quotes by Theodor Adorno

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

Category:
Happiness
Author
Theodor Adorno
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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno

Category:
Death
Author
Theodor Adorno
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Other Quotes from
History
category

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. – Conrad Black

Category:
History

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. – Jean Chretien

Category:
History

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long. – Aung San Suu Kyi

Category:
History

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. – Daisaku Ikeda

Category:
History

Random Quotes

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Alcohol

I was never sloppy with other peoples money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be. – Francis Ford Coppola

Category:
Money

By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try? – Alastair Campbell

Category:
Happiness

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. – James Lovelock

Category:
environmental