Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

—Theodor W. Adorno

About Theodor W. Adorno

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Theodor W. Adorno (; German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ aˈdɔʁno] ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as...

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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

—Theodor W. Adorno

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

—Theodor W. Adorno

The admonitions to be happy, voiced in concert by the… sanatorium director and the… propaganda chiefs of the entertainment industry, have about them the fury of the father berating his children for not rushing joyously downstairs when he comes home irritable from his office. It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a direct line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain.

—Theodor W. Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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More quotations tagged with “lies”

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

—Samuel Butler

A liar should have a good memory.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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