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Theodor Adorno quotes (79) A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. Theodor Adorno Category: 
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 Category:
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno Category:
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Theodor Adorno Category:
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 Category:
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. Theodor Adorno Category:
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno Category: Art
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 Category:
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 Category:
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. Theodor Adorno Category:
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno Category:
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. Theodor Adorno Category:
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. Theodor Adorno Category:
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Theodor Adorno Category:
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Theodor Adorno Category:
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. Theodor Adorno Category:
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. Theodor Adorno Category:
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. Theodor Adorno Category:
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor Adorno Category:
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. Theodor Adorno Category:
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. Theodor Adorno Category:
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 Category:
He who integrates is lost. Theodor Adorno Category:
He who matures early lives in anticipation. Theodor Adorno Category:
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 Category:
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. Theodor Adorno Category:
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. Theodor Adorno Category:
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. Theodor Adorno Category:
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 Category:
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. Theodor Adorno Category:
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. Theodor Adorno Category:
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. Theodor Adorno Category:
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Theodor Adorno Category:
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. Theodor Adorno Category:
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. Theodor Adorno Category:
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. Theodor Adorno Category:
Intelligence is a moral category. Theodor Adorno Category:
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. Theodor Adorno Category:
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor Adorno Category:
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno Category: Love
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno Category:
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor Adorno Category:
No emancipation without that of society. Theodor Adorno Category:
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. Theodor Adorno Category:
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno Category:
Normality is death. Theodor Adorno Category:
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor Adorno Category:
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. Theodor Adorno Category:
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 Category:
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Theodor Adorno Category:
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. Theodor Adorno Category:
Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. Theodor Adorno Category:
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Theodor Adorno Category: Technology
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno Category:
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. Theodor Adorno Category:
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. Theodor Adorno Category:
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. Theodor Adorno Category:
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno Category:
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. Theodor Adorno Category:
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Theodor Adorno Category:
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. Theodor Adorno Category:
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. Theodor Adorno Category:
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. Theodor Adorno Category:
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 Category:
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. Theodor Adorno Category:
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. Theodor Adorno Category:
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. Theodor Adorno Category:
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. Theodor Adorno Category:
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno Category: Art
The whole is the false. Theodor Adorno Category:
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