"En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine,

"Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth." Theodor W. Adorno

"It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist." Theodor W. Adorno

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth." Theodor Adorno

"It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist." Theodor W. Adorno

"L'idéologie guette l'esprit qui, se réjouissant de lui-même comme le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche, devient irrésistiblement presque un absolu de lui-même. La théorie empêche cela. Elle corrige la naïverté

"Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream; hence it may have been wrong to say that after Auschwitz you could no longer write poems." Theodor W. Adorno

"As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than

"Whoever allows the cognition of the increase of horror to escape them, does not merely fall prey to cold-hearted contemplation, but fails to recognize, along with the specific difference of what

"Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth." Theodor W. Adorno

"It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist." Theodor W. Adorno

"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. " Theodor Adorno

"The bliss of contemplation consists in disenchanted charm." Theodor W. Adorno

"Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime" Theodor Adorno

"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available." Theodor W. Adorno

"Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage." Theodor W. Adorno

"freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices." theodor w. adorno

"In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth." Theodor Adorno

"He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the