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
life cutting luxury
Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.
life jobs looks
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.
life hate peculiar
To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.
true-life
There is no true life within a false life.
life substance spheres
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as an appendage of the process of material production, without autonomy or substance of its own.
life despair vain
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
anticipation early-life
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
life absence ideology
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
life empty timeless
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
inspirational life art
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
life life-changing wrong-life
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
art relation inner-life
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
best
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
animals auschwitz begins looks wherever
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.