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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
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 Adorno Quotes)
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 Adorno Quotes)
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened Earth radiates disaster triumphant (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Philosophy... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
All the world’s not a stage (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
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 Adorno Quotes)
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 Adorno Quotes)
The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task (Theodor Adorno Quotes)
The bourgeois... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be (Theodor Adorno Quotes)