“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past torment.” — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Ever since Plato, bourgeois consciousness has deceived itself that objective antinomies could be mastered by steering a middle course between them, whereas the sought-out… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Fascism was not simply a conspiracy—although it was that—but it was something that came to life in the course of a powerful social development.… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.” — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion:… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“It is not so much that subjectivity is communicated or expressed by music as that in it, as in a theater, something objective is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is a pathological possibility built-in to all conceptual thinking, the "dark side of cognition" and the typical symptom of the "half-educated."20 Anti-Semitism is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“The subjectivist approach to art simply fails to understand that the subjective experience of art in itself is meaningless, and that in order to… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Divertir-se significa que não devemos pensar, que devemos esquecer a dor, mesmo onde ela se mostra. Na base do divertimento planta-se a impotência. É,… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Since death, as the existential horizon of Dasein, is considered absolute, it becomes the absolute in the form of an icon. There is here… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
