But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno More Quotes by Theodor Adorno More Quotes From Theodor Adorno The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. Theodor Adorno distancetwopeople All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils. Theodor Adorno sacrificemenculture The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. Theodor Adorno sicknesssiblinghealth The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. Theodor Adorno reactionsstupidityculture In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse. Theodor Adorno sacrificeacceptancelove Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. Theodor Adorno criticismrevengemind The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. Theodor Adorno jargonauthenticitylanguage The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject Theodor Adorno objectivitysufferingneeds Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. Theodor Adorno childhoodselfcharacter
