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Theodor W. Adorno - From the Anticipation category:
He who matures early lives in anticipation. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Art category:
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Chaos category:
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Criticism category:
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Culture category:
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Deception category:
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Discipline category:
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Ego category:
In many people it is already an impertinence to say ' I.' (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Freedom category:
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Harmony category:
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Health category:
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Humour category:
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Idealism category:
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Imitation category:
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Impotence category:
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Individuality category:
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Language category:
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Love category:
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Modernism category:
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Modernism category:
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Patriotism category:
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Peace category:
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Power category:
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Problems category:
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Quality category:
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Shock category:
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Suffering category:
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Survival category:
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Thinking category:
Thinking no longer means any more than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Thought category:
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Time category:
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Truth category:
The whole is the false. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Tyranny category:
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads. (Theodor W. Adorno)
Theodor W. Adorno - From the Tyranny category:
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. (Theodor W. Adorno)
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