"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

#Life Quotes #Substance Quotes #Spheres Quotes

“Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.”
“Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.”
“If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.”
“This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.”
“When itâ€™s quiet in my head like this, thatâ€™s when the voice doesnâ€™t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When itâ€™s quiet like this, thatâ€™s when I truly hate myself.”
“I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.”
“I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.”
“Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.”

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