The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. Theodor Adorno More Quotes by Theodor Adorno More Quotes From Theodor Adorno Intelligence is a moral category. Theodor Adorno categories moral In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. Theodor Adorno exaggeration psycho analysis The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. Theodor Adorno rich discipline thinking Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation. Theodor Adorno self writing long The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy Theodor Adorno essays form law The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion. Theodor Adorno conflict joy culture Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Theodor Adorno self play inspirational Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts. Theodor Adorno effort emotional art Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. Theodor Adorno jargon sound mean Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. Theodor Adorno discrimination differences conscious Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno advice In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects. Theodor Adorno feelings order culture 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 parsimony consideration moral Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Theodor Adorno survival different art Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it. Theodor Adorno poetry way art The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil. Theodor Adorno hatred evil order Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. Theodor Adorno one-day real belief There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. Theodor Adorno silence doe lying In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. Theodor Adorno shameless kitsch joy He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Theodor Adorno betrayal doe past
