The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture Quotes

“Paranoia is a pathological possibility built-in to all conceptual thinking, the "dark side of cognition" and the typical symptom of the "half-educated."20 Anti-Semitism is a form of paranoid projection which has long been at the heart of Western culture, and it can be expected to flourish as social conditions swell the ranks of the disgruntled "half-educated." This argument is central to the link which Adorno establishes between the "irrationalism" of fascist anti-Semitism and superficially harmless phenomena such as Astrology.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture