What did Theodor Adorno mean by: People know what they want because they know what other people want. Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany Copy
+ Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Rage, Talent, 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
+ Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Dehumanization, Empathy, Morality, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Art, Darkness, Irrationality, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Existence, Fear, World, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Choice, Freedom, Liberation, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Communication, Identity, Relationships, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Change, Paralysis, Timelessness, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. William Morris Designer · England
