Quote

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Theodor Adorno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodor Adorno
Speak
Weighs
Truth
Objectivity
Need
Condition
Needs
Subject
Subjects
Conditions
Suffering
Upon

More quotes by Theodor Adorno

Image
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
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 whole is the false.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
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
People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.
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
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Theodor Adorno
Image
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
Theodor Adorno
Image
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno