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The only philosophy that can b...

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The objective tendency of the ...

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

There is something embarrassin...

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 usual reproach against the...

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

In the innermost recesses of h...

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

The task of art today is to br...

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Love is the ability to discove...

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

Very evil people cannot really...

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

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

Auschwitz begins wherever some...

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

Theodor Adorno 251 quotes

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

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

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