Theodor AdornoFreedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a… ▶361LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoTo say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. ✨ Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life.362LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoThe culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Mu… ▶374Humanity
Theodor AdornoLaughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.375Humor
Theodor AdornoIt would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only th… ▶376Thought
Theodor AdornoThe lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has … ▶343LifeReflectionTime
Theodor AdornoA German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.110, … ▶376LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoJazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno (1982). Prisms, p.132, MIT Press376Truth
Theodor AdornoTrue thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.354ThoughtTruth
Theodor AdornoThe power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness ✨ Theodor W Adorno (2005). The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Cult… ▶322Politics
Theodor AdornoThere is no right life in the wrong one. ✨ The Little Red Book for Children by Jacob Blumenfeld, www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2017.322LifeReadingTime
Theodor AdornoTruth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.355Truth
Theodor AdornoNo harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.13… ▶366LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoIn psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. ✨ 1966 Negative Dialectics.356Truth
Theodor AdornoIf 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, … ▶301LifeReflectionTime
Theodor AdornoThe individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno (1978). Minima Moralia, p.148, Verso323Politics
Theodor AdornoIf across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life,… ▶345LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoInsane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). Can One Live After Auschwitz?… ▶312Reading
Theodor AdornoIn the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged … ▶312LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoArt is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.222, Verso323LifeReflectionTruth
Theodor AdornoLove is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.191, Verso301LifeLovePolitics
Theodor AdornoThe dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005… ▶302LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoThe first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Li… ▶313LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoEvery work of art is an uncommitted crime. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Music, p.41, Univ of California Press368Reading
Theodor AdornoThe task of art today is to bring chaos into order. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.222, Verso346LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoHe who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms hi… ▶313HumanityLifeTime
Theodor AdornoDissonance is the truth about harmony. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno (2013). Aesthetic Theory, p.151, A&C Black346Truth
Theodor AdornoThose who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephc… ▶314LifeReflection
Theodor AdornoIt is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz. ✨ How Poetry Can Be Written After Auschwitz by Billy Mills, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2011.3710Reflection
Theodor AdornoAnti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.110, Verso369LifeReflection
