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The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

Theodor Adorno
Lying, Believe, Reality
Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.30, Verso

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Theodor Adorno
Dream, Reality, Differences

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Theodor Adorno
Art, Reality, Becoming
Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.132, MIT Press

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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