Quote

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

Theodor Adorno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodor Adorno
Impossible
Suffering
Art
Auschwitz
May
Martyr
Right
Expressed
Writing
False
Much
Cry
Poetry

More quotes by Theodor Adorno

Image
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
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
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 noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.
Theodor Adorno
Image
He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
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
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
Theodor Adorno
Image
It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno
Image
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
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
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.
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
The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.
Theodor Adorno