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Last updated on December 11, 2024.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Theodor W. Adorno

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Theodor W. Adorno

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Theodor W. Adorno

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Theodor W. Adorno

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Theodor W. Adorno

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Theodor W. Adorno

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Theodor W. Adorno

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Theodor W. Adorno

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Theodor W. Adorno

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Theodor W. Adorno

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

No emancipation without that of society.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Theodor W. Adorno

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Theodor W. Adorno

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Theodor W. Adorno

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