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Laughing in the cultural indus...

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The splinter in your eye is th...

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Of the world as it exists, it ...

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The darkening of the world mak...

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

True thoughts are those alone ...

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The need to let suffering spea...

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Everything about art has becom...

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The hardest hit, as everywhere...

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Jazz is the false liquidation ...

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The aim of jazz is the mechani...

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

He who stands aloof runs the r...

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Triviality is evil - trivialit...

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

People have so manipulated the...

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Dissonance is the truth about ...

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

When all actions are mathemati...

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The capacity for fear and for ...

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is on...

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There's not much need for prop...

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There is no right life in the ...

There is no right life in the wrong one.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The inadequacy of the purely p...

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

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