Theodor Adorno Quotes


Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor Adorno Society 167
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Theodor Adorno Art 145
There is no love that is not an echo. Theodor Adorno Echo 125
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno art 117
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. Theodor Adorno Intention 112
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor Adorno Absence 95
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno Despair 95
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. Theodor Adorno Adapts 95
Normality is death. Theodor Adorno Death 93
He who integrates is lost. Theodor Adorno Lost 92
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno History 91
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 Society 89
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. Theodor Adorno Belief 87
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. Theodor Adorno Alone 87
No emancipation without that of society. Theodor Adorno Society 85
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. Theodor Adorno Beyond 85
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Theodor Adorno art 84
The whole is the false. Theodor Adorno False 83
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. Theodor Adorno Exploitation 80
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. Theodor Adorno Actions 79
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. Theodor Adorno Choice 78
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. Theodor Adorno Anymore 77
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno Life 76
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. Theodor Adorno Except 76
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno Attempt 75
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 Money 74
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. Theodor Adorno Accuser 72
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. Theodor Adorno Brief 72
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. Theodor Adorno Convey 72
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. Theodor Adorno Between 71
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Theodor Adorno Basic 71
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno Peace 70
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 Death 69
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno Power 69
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno art 68
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. Theodor Adorno Becomes 67
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 Art 67
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. Theodor Adorno Aspiration 66
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. Theodor Adorno Assigned 65
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. Theodor Adorno Age 65
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Theodor Adorno Bellies 64
He who matures early lives in anticipation. Theodor Adorno Anticipation 64
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Theodor Adorno art 63
Intelligence is a moral category. Theodor Adorno Intelligence 63
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. Theodor Adorno best 60
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. Theodor Adorno Discipline 60
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. Theodor Adorno Anything 60
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. Theodor Adorno alone 59
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor Adorno Category 58
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. Theodor Adorno Able 58

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