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Theodor Adorno Quotes

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them Picture Quote #1

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state Picture Quote #1

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils Picture Quote #1

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters Picture Quote #1

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case Picture Quote #1

What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own Picture Quote #1

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What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts Picture Quote #1

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent Picture Quote #1

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence Picture Quote #1

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability Picture Quote #1

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends Picture Quote #1

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity Picture Quote #1

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Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory Picture Quote #1

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it Picture Quote #1

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline Picture Quote #1

The 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 no need either of him or his good opinion Picture Quote #1

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion Picture Quote #1

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist Picture Quote #1

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People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress Picture Quote #1

Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation Picture Quote #1

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern Picture Quote #1

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet Picture Quote #1

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain Picture Quote #1

As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities Picture Quote #1

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Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity Picture Quote #1

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The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state (Theodor Adorno Quotes) All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case (Theodor Adorno Quotes) What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own (Theodor Adorno Quotes) What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts (Theodor Adorno Quotes) The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent (Theodor Adorno Quotes) The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence (Theodor Adorno Quotes) On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability (Theodor Adorno Quotes) It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends (Theodor Adorno Quotes) The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it (Theodor Adorno Quotes) What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline (Theodor Adorno Quotes) The 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 no need either of him or his good opinion (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist (Theodor Adorno Quotes) People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation (Theodor Adorno Quotes) And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern (Theodor Adorno Quotes) To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain (Theodor Adorno Quotes) As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities (Theodor Adorno Quotes) Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity (Theodor Adorno Quotes)

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