“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
Alone
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
ArtAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Life“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Health“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“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“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Freedom“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness“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“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
Power“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Art“No emancipation without that of society.”
Society“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”
Best“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“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love“Normality is death.”
Death