What did Theodor Adorno mean by: When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany Copy
+ 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
+ Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Myth, Thought, Violence, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
+ Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Deception, Disregard, Independence, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Theodor Adorno, Art, History, Truth, 0 Theodor Adorno Philosopher and sociologist · Germany
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. Jean Meslier Priest · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Read explanation Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
