3 Theodor Adorno Quotes on Illusion

Theodor Adorno quotes on illusion

2. 'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

25. 'Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society. But in erecting truth directly amid the general untruth, it perverts the former into the latter.'

127. 'Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.'