Quote #13

'Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but …
  2. 'Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane…
  3. 'An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of diff…
  4. 'Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.'
  5. 'All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.'
  6. 'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'
  7. 'All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level. The slave morality is indeed bad: it is sti…
  8. 'But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.'

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