Quote

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Theodor Adorno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodor Adorno
Needs
Deceit
Good
Lies
Told
Either
Opinion
Lying
Someone
Need
Convey

More quotes by Theodor Adorno

Image
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno
Image
There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
Theodor Adorno
Image
All the world's not a stage.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.
Theodor Adorno
Image
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
Theodor Adorno
Image
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
Theodor Adorno
Image
There is no true life within a false life.
Theodor Adorno