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From Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
- Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
- Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
- Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
- The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
- The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of…
- 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…
- The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
- So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
- The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even…
- The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease…
- Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and…
- It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be…
- The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
- Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its…
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