One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. 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 distance two people 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 sacrifice men culture The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. Theodor Adorno sickness sibling health The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. Theodor Adorno reactions stupidity culture 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 sacrifice acceptance love 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 criticism revenge mind The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. Theodor Adorno jargon authenticity language The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject Theodor Adorno objectivity suffering needs 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 childhood self character
