31 quotes by Theodor Adorno

“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”— Theodor Adorno

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”— Theodor Adorno

“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”— Theodor Adorno

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”— Theodor Adorno

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”— Theodor Adorno

“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”— Theodor Adorno

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”— Theodor Adorno

“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”— Theodor Adorno

“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”— Theodor Adorno

“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.”— Theodor Adorno

“Normality is death.”— Theodor Adorno

“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”— Theodor Adorno

“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”— Theodor Adorno

“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.”— Theodor Adorno

“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”— Theodor Adorno

“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”— Theodor Adorno

“Intelligence is a moral category.”— Theodor Adorno

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”— Theodor Adorno

“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”— Theodor Adorno

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”— Theodor Adorno

“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”— Theodor Adorno

“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”— Theodor Adorno

“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”— Theodor Adorno

“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”— Theodor Adorno

“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.”— Theodor Adorno