Theodor Adorno

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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

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.

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