“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.”
Happiness
“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
LoveAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“Normality is death.”
Death“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“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Art“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”
Society“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“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“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art“No emancipation without that of society.”
Society“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Art“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
Work“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
Age“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Health“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