Quote

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Theodor Adorno

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodor Adorno
People
Stems
Tolerant
Bourgeois
Stem
Hatred
Might
Love

More quotes by Theodor Adorno

Image
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Theodor Adorno
Image
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject
Theodor Adorno
Image
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
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
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.
Theodor Adorno
Image
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.
Theodor Adorno
Image
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor Adorno
Image
All the world's not a stage.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor Adorno