Quotes from Theodor W. Adorno
Whoever allows the cognition of the increase of horror to escape them, does not merely fall prey to cold-hearted contemplation, but fails to recognize, along with the specific difference of what is newest from what has gone before, simultaneously the true identity of the whole, of horror without end.
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Moins la t théorie cherche à passer pour définitive, englobante, moins aussi elle s'objectivisise (vergegenständlichen) face à celui qui pense. La disparition de la contrainte du système permet au pensant de se fier avec moins de prévention à sa propre conscience et expérience que ne le tolérait la conception pathétique d'une subjectivité qui doit payer son triomphe abstrait du renoncement à son contenu spécifique.
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En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine, rien sur lui-même, sur son développement. De manière analogue, il faudrait que la philosophie ne se ramène pas à des catégories mais en un certain sens qu'elle se mette à composer.
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L'idéologie guette l'esprit qui, se réjouissant de lui-même comme le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche, devient irrésistiblement presque un absolu de lui-même. La théorie empêche cela. Elle corrige la naïverté de sa confiance en soi sans qu'il doive pourtant sacrifier la spontanéité à laquelle la théorie pour sa part veut accéder.
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Cuando se afirma y se subraya tal cosa sin que tal diferencia resulte de las palabras mismas, y cuando en lugar de ello, las palabras se refieren precisamente a lo que niegan tales afirmaciones, surge la sospecha de que en tales palabras se esconde precisamente lo negado. Por lo tanto, no hay que creer demasiado en esas afirmaciones.
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If love in society is to represent a better one, it cannot do so as a peaceful enclave, but only by conscious opposition. This, however, demands precisely the element of voluntariness that the bourgeois, for whom love can never be natural enough, forbid it. Loving means not letting immediacy wither under the omnipresent weight of mediation and economics, and in such fidelity it becomes itself mediated, as a stubborn counter-pressure. He alone loves who has the strength to hold fast to love.
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Even though laughter is still the sign of force, of the breaking out of blind and obdurate nature, it also contains the opposite element - the fact that through laughter blind nature becomes aware of itself as it is, and thereby surrenders itself to the power of destruction.
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Der Splitter in deinem Auge ist das beste Vergröserungsglas.
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Important artworks constantly divulge new layers, they age, grow cold and die.
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The task of thought is to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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The un-naïve thinker knows how far he remains from the object of his thinking, and yet he must always talk as if he had it entirely. This brings him to the point of clowning. He must not deny his clownish traits, least of all since they alone can give him hope for what is denied him.
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L'art est la magie délivrée du mensonge d'être vrai.
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Il faut abandonner l'illusion qu'elle [la philosophie] pourrait retenir l'essence dans la finitude de ses déterminations.
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Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement.
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Aufgearbeitet wäre die Vergangenheit erst dann, wenn die Ursachen des Vergangenen beseitigt wären. Nur weil die Ursachen fortbestehen, ward sein Bann bis heute nicht gebrochen.
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As pessoas não percebem o quanto não são livres lá onde mais livres se sentem, porque a regra de tal ausência de liberdade foi abstraída delas.
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Se se quisesse responder à questão sem asserções ideológicas, torna-se-ia imperiosa a suspeita de que o tempo livre tende em direção contrária à de seu próprio conceito, tornando-se paródia, deste. Nele se prolonga a não-liberdade tão desconhecida da maioria das pessoas não-livres como a sua não-liberdade em si mesma.
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Divertir-se significa que não devemos pensar, que devemos esquecer a dor, mesmo onde ela se mostra. Na base do divertimento planta-se a impotência. É, de fato, fuga, mas não, como pretende, fuga da realidade perversa, mas sim do ultimo grão de resistência que a realidade ainda pode haver deixado. A libertação prometida pelo entretenimento é a do pensamento como negação.
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Rüya, ÅŸakalar?n?n kalitesi hakk?nda tasalanmaz. İyi espriler yapmak derdinde deÄŸildir; çünkü zaten herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmak istememektedir. Rüya yönelimsizdir; çünkü kendisi yönelimdir; bu nedenle rüyalar?n isabetli ya da isabetsiz olmas? söz konusu deÄŸildir.
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Toda "cultura pura" tem causado mal-estar aos porta-vozes do poder
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Bir cümle bir öncekini, hakiki olmad???n? öne sürerek geçersiz k?larken, kendi de bir sonraki cümle taraf?ndan yalanlanmak üzeredir.
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The end of the family paralyses the forces of opposition. The rising collectivist order is a mockery of a classless one: together with the bourgeois it liquidates the Utopia that once drew sustenance from motherly love.
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All these nervous people, from the unemployed to the public figure liable at any moment to incur the wrath of those whose investment he represents, believe that only by empathy, assiduity, serviceability, arts and dodges, by tradesmen's qualities, can they ingratiate themselves with the executive they imagine omnipresent, and soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a 'connection', no impulse not first censored as to whether it deviates from the acceptable.
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Conceitos vulgares como "entretenimento" são muito mais adequados do que considerações pretensiosas sobre um fato de um escritor ser representante da pequena burguesia e outro, da alta burguesia.
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