Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
Theodor W. Adornowas a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 September 1903
CountryGermany
animals auschwitz begins looks wherever
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals.
molotov-cocktail people trying
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
echoes no-love
There is no love that is not an echo.
moral consideration parsimony
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
art order design
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
categories modernity qualitative
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
firsts principles ethics
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
empathy imitating-others imitation
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
history doe language
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
successful people done
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.
psychology horror
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
moral categories
Intelligence is a moral category.
emotional democracy source
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
looks pleasure sinner
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.