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The dialectic cannot stop shor...

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

People at the top are closing ...

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The poor are prevented from th...

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

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Those who cannot help ought al...

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Freud made the discovery- quit...

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The body's habituation to walk...

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Even the loveliest dream bears...

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Art as a whole is a riddle. An...

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

It would be advisable to think...

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Art is the social antithesis o...

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Indeed, happiness is nothing o...

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The thought that murders the w...

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

They [the critics] deal with S...

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical clichГ©, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Thus is order ensured: some ha...

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Only thought which does violen...

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Cultural criticism finds itsel...

Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

A successful work of art is no...

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

In so far as the culture indus...

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

What can oppose the decline of...

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Auschwitz begins wherever some...

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

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