Theodor Adorno Quotes About Awareness
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The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.
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Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
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Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. While he gropingly forms his own life in the frail image of a true existence, he should never forget its frailty, nor how little the image is a substitute for true life. Against such awareness, however, pulls the momentum of the bourgeois within him.
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