What did Theodor Adorno mean by: Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany Copy
+ In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Morality, Responsibility, Universal, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Destruction, Loss, Resilience, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Delivery, Ideology, Pride, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Language, Poverty, Struggle, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Dependence, Existence, Interconnectedness, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Imitation, Indignation, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Alienation, Connection, Isolation, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ People know what they want because they know what other people want. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Desire, Influence, Society, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. Read explanation Fred Tomaselli
