Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno (/əˈdɔːrnoʊ/; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society.
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“There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.”
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“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”
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“There is an inner world; and a spiritual faculty of discerning it with absolute clearness, nay, with the most minute and brilliant distinctness. But it is part of our earthly lot that it is the outer world, in which we are encased, which is the lever that brings that spiritual faculty into play.”
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“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
—Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969)