The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“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… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
