Theodor Adorno Quotes about Discipline

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The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Theodor Adorno

Thinking, Discipline, Rich

Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.76, Stanford University Press

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

Theodor Adorno

Philosophy, Discipline, Intellectual

Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press