Expression Quote by Theodor Adorno Download Open image “The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.” — Theodor Adorno ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expression History Ifs Past Suffering Time Torment
“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We… — Claude Bowers Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger Copy Share Image
If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance. — Herbert Butterfield 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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Instead of asking a girl how she feels, try looking through her recently listened to songs. The lyrics are the answer to all your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience. — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
