Quote #16

'Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.'

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.'
  2. 'But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.'
  3. 'Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane…
  4. 'Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.'
  5. 'Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.'
  6. 'Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.'
  7. '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 …
  8. 'Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.'

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