“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”
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“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
PeaceAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
Alone“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
Power“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
Love“Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.”
Truth“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”
Art“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”
Alone“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Art“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.”
Society“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Art“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”
Society“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
Age“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness“Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.”
Death“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”
Power“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”
Art