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Theodor Adorno Quotes

Type: Philosopher Quotes Category: German Philosopher Quotes Date of Birth: September 11, 1903 Date of Death: August 6, 1969 Nationality: German Find on Amazon: Theodor Adorno Related Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche Arthur Schopenhauer Karl Marx Immanuel Kant Meister Eckhart Martin Heidegger Jurgen Habermas

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. Theodor Adorno 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. Theodor Adorno Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Theodor Adorno An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. Theodor Adorno Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. Theodor Adorno Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Theodor Adorno Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. Theodor Adorno But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. Theodor Adorno Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. Theodor Adorno Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Theodor Adorno Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Theodor Adorno Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. Theodor Adorno Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. Theodor Adorno For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. Theodor Adorno Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor Adorno Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. Theodor Adorno He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Theodor Adorno He who integrates is lost. Theodor Adorno He who matures early lives in anticipation. Theodor Adorno 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. Theodor Adorno History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. Theodor Adorno If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. Theodor Adorno 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. Theodor Adorno In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. Theodor Adorno In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. Theodor Adorno In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. Theodor Adorno In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Theodor Adorno In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. Theodor Adorno In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. Theodor Adorno Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. Theodor Adorno Intelligence is a moral category. Theodor Adorno Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. Theodor Adorno Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor Adorno Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor Adorno No emancipation without that of society. Theodor Adorno No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. Theodor Adorno None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno Normality is death. Theodor Adorno Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor Adorno Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. Theodor Adorno Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. Theodor Adorno Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Theodor Adorno Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. Theodor Adorno Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. Theodor Adorno Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Theodor Adorno The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. Theodor Adorno The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. Theodor Adorno The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. Theodor Adorno The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. Theodor Adorno The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Theodor Adorno The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. Theodor Adorno The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. Theodor Adorno The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. Theodor Adorno The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. Theodor Adorno The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. Theodor Adorno The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. Theodor Adorno The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. Theodor Adorno The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. Theodor Adorno The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno The whole is the false. Theodor Adorno There is no love that is not an echo. Theodor Adorno Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. Theodor Adorno To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. Theodor Adorno Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. Theodor Adorno True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. 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. Theodor Adorno When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. Theodor Adorno Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Theodor Adorno Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno

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