Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.