Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor AdornoWork while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor AdornoTruth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor AdornoA successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.
Theodor Adorno