Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
Theodor W. Adornowas a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 September 1903
CountryGermany
philosophy goal legends
By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.
thinking jargon doe
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
writing ends
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
simple vacuums purity
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
lying thinking ideas
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.
love may weak
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
utopia abstract fulfilled
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
language hunger poor
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
people want knows
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
quality depth alternatives
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
doe use rubber
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
discovery self individual
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.
stupidity culture reactions
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
birthday being-yourself inspire
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.