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Theodor Adorno quotes

Deutsch Philosopher September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969

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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
Theodor Adorno quote: "Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak..."
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to..."
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "There is no love that is not an echo."
There is no love that is not an echo. Theodor Adorno
He 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 his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against suchawareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly."
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "Life has become the ideology of its own absence."
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "There is no right life in the wrong one."
There is no right life in the wrong one. Theodor Adorno
Thought as suc? 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
Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. Theodor Adorno
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects. Theodor Adorno
Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no longer write for... Theodor Adorno
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. Theodor Adorno

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