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Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “Folly is truth in the form which men are struck with as amid untruth they will not let truth go.”

151. “Folly is truth in the form which men are struck with as amid untruth they will not let truth go.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “The more completely the machinery of thought subjugates existence, the more blindly it is satisfied with reproducing it. Enlightenment thereby regresses to the mythology it has never been able to escape. For mythology had reflected in its forms the essence of the existing order – cyclical motion, fate, domination of the world as truth – and had renounced hope.”

152. “The more completely the machinery of thought subjugates existence, the more blindly it is satisfied with reproducing it. Enlightenment thereby regresses to the mythology it has never been able to escape. For mythology had reflected in its forms the essence of the existing order – cyclical motion, fate, domination of the world as truth – and had renounced hope.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “It is the innermost nature of true interpretation to contribute to the death of its object.”

153. “It is the innermost nature of true interpretation to contribute to the death of its object.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “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.”

154. “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.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.”

155. “If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.”

156. “Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.”

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Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.”

157. “Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.”

158. “But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.”

159. “It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “The subjectivist approach to art simply fails to understand that the subjective experience of art in itself is meaningless, and that in order to grasp the importance of art one has to zero in on the artistic object rather than on the fun of the art lover.”

160. “The subjectivist approach to art simply fails to understand that the subjective experience of art in itself is meaningless, and that in order to grasp the importance of art one has to zero in on the artistic object rather than on the fun of the art lover.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.”

161. “By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.”

162. “In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer – no matter what he believes in.”

163. “The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer – no matter what he believes in.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.”

164. “Perhaps a film which strictly and in all respects satisfied the code of the Hays Office might turn out a great work of art, but not in a world in which there is a Hays Office.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno Quote: “They murder so that whatever to them seems living, shall resemble themselves.”

165. “They murder so that whatever to them seems living, shall resemble themselves.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

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