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• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Order, Tasks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Real, Practice

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

  Theodor Adorno

  Reality, Order, Betrayed

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.35, Stanford University Press

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• The noiseless din that we have long known in dreams, booms at us in waking hours from newspaper headlines.

  Theodor Adorno

  Dream, Long, Waking

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.

  Theodor Adorno

  Culture, Demand, Trouble

  "Culture Industry Reconsidered". Book by Theodor Adorno, 1963.

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• Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Thinking, Moments

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• In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Discipline, Intellectual

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Impertinence

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

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• A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

  Theodor Adorno

  Thinking, Veils, Approach

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.13, Columbia University Press

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• The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

  Theodor Adorno

  Strong, Men, Intellectual

  "Minima Moralia". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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