“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.”
DeathAll Quotes by Theodor Adorno
“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Freedom“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Intelligence“Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.”
Society“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“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Life“In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
Age“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Love“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“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”
Best“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.”
Technology“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
Work“Normality is death.”
Death“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
History“No emancipation without that of society.”
Society“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”
Art“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Art“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Art“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