Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodor Adorno
Important
Nouns
Thing
Examination
Current
Currents
Planning
Noble
Function
Linguistic
Rather
Index

More quotes by 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
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
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
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
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
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
Theodor Adorno
Image
What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.
Theodor Adorno
Image
There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor Adorno
Image
He who integrates is lost.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
Theodor Adorno
Image
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.
Theodor Adorno
Image
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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 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
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.
Theodor Adorno