“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 task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
ArtAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Art“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”
Best“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Art“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Life“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“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
Work“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Society“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence“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“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
Love“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“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“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”
Money“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
Alone“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art