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„Не мы слушаем музыку, а музыка слушает нас.“

„Не мы слушаем музыку, а музыка слушает нас.“

„Ярость обрушивается на того, чья беззащитность очевидна.“

„Любое рождение оплачено смертью, всякое счастье — несчастьем.“

„Тот, кто учит, что править должен не разум, а любовь, открывает дорогу тому, кто убежден, что править должна ненависть.“

„Рефлексия в высшей степени способна прибегать к фантазии — определенное сознание того, в чем нуждается произведение искусства в том или ином месте, вовлекает фантазию в процесс творчества.“

„Всякое произведение искусства содержит определенный — может быть, и противоречивый — комплекс проблем, то из этого контекста можно вывести не самое плохое определение фантазии.“

„Фантазия как раз ставит все то, что произведения искусства поглощают из сущего, в ситуации, благодаря которым произведения становятся «другим» сущего.“

„Волшебство, избавленное от необходимости врать про то, что чудеса бывают, называют искусством.“

„Пьянство, эксцесс пуританства, являет собой отчаянную месть жизни.“

„В таком нелепом занятии, как убийство, находит своё подтверждение вся тупость жизни, которой покоряются.“

„Страх и цивилизация неразделимы.“

„Пушка — изобретение, которое напрашивалось само собой.“

„Когда кто-то другой берёт слово, фашист воспринимает это как наглое вмешательство.“

„Оптимальный источник света — тот, который позволяет увидеть сияние ада в разломах этого мира.“

„Фантазия — явление вполне управляемое, позволяющее командовать собой.“

„Фантазией считается, под влиянием веры в субъект как в наследника Творца, способность создавать как бы из ничего определенное художественное бытие, художественное сущее.“

„Фантазией считается, под влиянием веры в субъект как в наследника Творца, способность создавать как бы из ничего определенное художественное бытие, художественное сущее.“

„За культ мадонны женщина поплатилась ведьмоманией.“

„Всё, что хотело бы влачить всего только жалкое существование, должно поплатиться за это.“

„Писать стихи после Освенцима — это варварство.“

„В психоанализе нет ничего истинного, кроме преувеличений.“

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”

“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”

“Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”

“There is no right life in the wrong one.”

“Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.”

“Impulse, subjectivity and profanation, the old adversaries of materialistic alienation, now succumb to it. … The representatives of the opposition to the authoritarian schema become witnesses to the authority of commercial success. … In the service of success they renounce that insubordinate character which was theirs.”

“Regressive listeners behave like children. Again and again and with stubborn malice, they demand the one dish they have once been served.”

“The occupation with things of the mind has by now itself become “practical,” a business with strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry. The man of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance for the ignominy of earning money will not be disposed to acknowledge the fact. For this he is punished. He … is ranked in the competitive hierarchy as a dilettante no matter how well he knows his subject, and must, if he wants to make a career, show himself even more resolutely blinkered than the most inveterate specialist. The urge to suspend the division of labor which, within certain limits, his economic situation enables him to satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination to sanction the operations imposed by society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract. It performs this task all the more reliably since anyone who repudiates this division of labor—if only by taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its standards, in ways inseparable from elements of his superiority.”

“The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. The order that springs from it is never confronted with what it claims to be or with the real interests of human beings.”

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

“People know what they want because they know what other people want.”

“Dissonance is the truth about harmony.”

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”

“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 is what is radically evil.”

“To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home”

“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 idea of progress be free from lies.”

“One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.”

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

“If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought’s powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence. … It is incumbent upon philosophy … to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.”

“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.”

“Being, in whose name Heidegger’s philosophy increasingly concentrates itself, is for him—as a pure self-presentation to passive consciousness—just as immediate, just as independent of the mediations of the subject as the facts and the sensory data are for the positivists. In both philosophical movements thinking becomes a necessary evil and is broadly discredited. Thinking loses its element of independence. The autonomy of reason vanishes: the part of reason that exceeds the subordinate reflection upon and adjustment to pre-given data. With it, however, goes the conception of freedom and, potentially, the self-determination of human society.”

“The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on its objective legitimation, its essential being, least of all by a science which thinks itself pragmatic.”

“The concept of positivity in itself, in abstracto, has become part and parcel of the ideology today. … Critique has started to become suspect, regardless of its content.”

“Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.”

“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”

“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.”