Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

• Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

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• The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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• In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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• Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

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• Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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• The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

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• But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

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• He who integrates is lost.

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• He who matures early lives in anticipation.

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• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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• Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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• To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

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• 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.

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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• The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

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• Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

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• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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• In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

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• The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

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• Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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Theodor W. Adorno (88)

Birth:	11th September, 1903
Death:	6th August, 1969
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher, Sociologist

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