“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness
“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
PowerAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“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“No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.”
Alone“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Life“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“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Health“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
Age“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.”
Power“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love“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“An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.”
Society“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“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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology