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Theodor W.  Quotes
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

—Theodor W.

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MusicMusic-CriticismNew-Music
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Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen

—Theodor W.

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LifeSociety
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Triviality is evil – triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly...

—Theodor W.

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EvilInertiaMorality
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What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

—Theodor W.

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CivilizationCritical-TheoryCultural-Criticism
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Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

—Theodor W.

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Evil
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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 beings cheats...

—Theodor W.

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CriticalPhilosophy
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Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

—Theodor W.

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Broken
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The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

—Theodor W.

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AestheticsPhilosophy
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The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

—Theodor W.

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GeniusOpen
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Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

—Theodor W.

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AestheticsPhilosophy
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Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

—Theodor W.

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Animal-CrueltyAnimal-RightsAnimals
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Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed. The summary judgement that it had merely interpreted the world is itself crippled by resignation before reality, and becomes a...

—Theodor W.

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Philosophy
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A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

—Theodor W.

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Film
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Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of...

—Theodor W.

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CommunicationFutilityGod
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It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the...

—Theodor W.

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AuschwitzEthicsProgress
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The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in...

—Theodor W.

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ArtPhilosophy
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The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but...

—Theodor W.

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