The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
More Quotes from Theodor Adorno:
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.Theodor Adorno
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Theodor Adorno
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: catastrophesI don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
Ann Robinson
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
Margaret E. Sangster
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Charles de Secondat