Quote #14
'Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.'
More from Theodor Adorno
- 'Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.'
- 'Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.'
- '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 …
- 'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'
- 'An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of diff…
- 'But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.'
- 'All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.'
- 'Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.'