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There is no love that is not an echo.

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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

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The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

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The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 11th, 1903

Died: August 6th, 1969

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