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Advancing bourgeois society li...

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The taboos that constitute a m...

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

It is incumbent upon philosoph...

It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

In the nineteenth century the ...

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

What is or is not the jargon i...

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently in opposition to its own meaning; by whether the individual words are loaded at the expense of the sentence, its propositional force, and the thought content.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

It is one of the basic tenets ...

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The expression if history in t...

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The important thing is not the...

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Writing poetry after Auschwitz...

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

People know what they want bec...

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There is no true life within a...

There is no true life within a false life.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Death is imposed only on creat...

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There can be no poetry after A...

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Talent is perhaps nothing othe...

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Fear and destructiveness are t...

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

In psycho-analysis nothing is ...

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The gods look in pleasure on p...

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

When I made my theoretical mod...

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The almost insoluble task is t...

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The power of the culture indus...

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

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