Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Theodor Adorno

8 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Theodor Adorno

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Theodor Adorno’s eight statements dissect the interplay of culture and cognition with his characteristic rigor. This short selection serves as a compact entry point for anyone interested in his critical view of consciousness.

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

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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

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

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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

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Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the…

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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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

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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,…

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It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently…

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“The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting…

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The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

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

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

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A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules…

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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good.…

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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends…

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