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By abstaining from all defini...

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

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 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

Indeed, happiness is nothing ...

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

That all men are alike is exa...

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The basest person is capable ...

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The darkening of the world ma...

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

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Auschwitz begins wherever som...

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

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Writing poetry after Auschwit...

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

To hate destructiveness, one ...

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There is something embarrassi...

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The phrase, the world wants t...

The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Triviality is evil - triviali...

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

The triumph of advertising in...

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Everybody must have projects ...

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The need to let suffering spe...

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

There's not much need for pro...

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

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

People have so manipulated th...

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

Art respects the masses, by s...

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

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

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