“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”
Health
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
ArtAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
Age“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
Work“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“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“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”
Peace“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“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Art“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.”
Power“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”
Best“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 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“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Happiness“No emancipation without that of society.”
Society“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art“Normality is death.”
Death