History Quote by Theodor W. Adorno

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“One should never begrudge deletions.”

— Theodor W. Adorno