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Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: There is no love that is not an echo.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.

In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.

Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: There is no right life in the wrong one.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.

A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.

There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.

Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Theodor W. 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.

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 W. Adorno quotes: Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: People know what they want because they know what other people want.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

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

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.

Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

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

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: There is no true life within a false life.

There is no true life within a false life.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: One should never begrudge deletions.

One should never begrudge deletions.

Theodor W. Adorno quotes: If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.