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Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
Theodor W. Adorno
No emancipation without that of society.
Theodor W. Adorno
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality
Theodor W. Adorno
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture
Theodor W. Adorno
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
Theodor W. 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 W. Adorno
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor W. Adorno
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves
Theodor W. Adorno
He who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor W. Adorno
The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor W. Adorno
Modernism is not a positive slogan
Theodor W. Adorno
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
Theodor W. Adorno
Modern art is as abstract as the real relations among men
Theodor W. Adorno
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor W. Adorno
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor W. Adorno
All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level.
Theodor W. Adorno
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
Theodor W. Adorno
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor W. Adorno
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
Theodor W. Adorno
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor W. Adorno
Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, abstracted as the proportion of fine metal, becomes a fetish.
Theodor W. Adorno
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor W. Adorno
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor W. Adorno
Perhaps the true society will grow tired of development and, out of freedom, leave possibilities unused, instead of storming under a confused compulsion to the conquest of strange stars.
Theodor W. Adorno
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Theodor W. Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor W. Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. Adorno
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Theodor W. Adorno
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Theodor W. Adorno
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor W. Adorno
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor W. Adorno
He who integrates is lost.
Theodor W. Adorno
The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption.
Theodor W. Adorno
There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor W. Adorno
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor W. Adorno
Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor W. Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor W. Adorno
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
Theodor W. Adorno
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Theodor W. Adorno
The dreams have no dream.
Theodor W. Adorno
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.
Theodor W. Adorno
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
Theodor W. Adorno
The whole is the false.
Theodor W. Adorno
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
Theodor W. Adorno
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor W. Adorno
In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.
Theodor W. Adorno
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor W. Adorno
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
Theodor W. Adorno
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
Theodor W. Adorno
Normality is death.
Theodor W. Adorno
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor W. Adorno
The only decent marriage would be one allowing each partner to lead an independent life, in which, instead of a fusion derived from an enforced community of economic interest, both freely accepted mutual responsibility.
Theodor W. Adorno
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor W. Adorno
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor W. Adorno
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor W. Adorno
The overbearing matter-of-factness which sacrifices the subject to the ascertainment of the truth, rejects at once truth and objectivity. 126
Theodor W. Adorno
He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of consciousness to happiness is gratitude: in which lies its incomparable dignity.
Theodor W. Adorno
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 W. Adorno
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor W. Adorno
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor W. Adorno
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
Theodor W. Adorno
Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Theodor W. Adorno
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants.
Theodor W. Adorno
To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
Theodor W. Adorno
Knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presuppositions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly-founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience.
Theodor W. Adorno
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Theodor W. Adorno
Without hope, the idea of truth would be scarcely even thinkable, and it is the cardinal untruth, having recognized existence to be bad, to present it as truth simply because it has been recognized.
Theodor W. Adorno
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor W. Adorno
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
Theodor W. Adorno
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor W. Adorno
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
Theodor W. Adorno
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Theodor W. Adorno
When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Theodor W. Adorno
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