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Theodor Adorno quotes

Deutsch Philosopher September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969

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Theodor Adorno quote: "Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness."
Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno
Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available."
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. Theodor Adorno
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
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need..."
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own..."
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno
The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime"
Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime Theodor Adorno
If 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 Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. Theodor Adorno
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical clich, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian. Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno quote: "If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is..."
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. Theodor Adorno

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