“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love
“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
AloneAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Society“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
Love“Normality is death.”
Death“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
Power“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Life“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness“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“No emancipation without that of society.”
Society“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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“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“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“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”
Power“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
Alone“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Health“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence