Theodor Adorno

• "In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.“
• "True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.“
• "No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.“
• "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.“
• "The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.“
• "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.“
• "Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.“
• "Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.“
• "The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.“
• "Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.“
• "Normality is death.“
• "Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.“
• "Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.“
• "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.“
• "Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.“
• "History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.“
• "Intelligence is a moral category.“
• "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.“
• "Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.“
• "Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.“
• "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.“
• "None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.“
• "Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.“
• "The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.“
• "The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.“
• "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.“
• "An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.“
• "No emancipation without that of society.“
• "Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.“
• "Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.“
• "Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.“
• "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.“
• "Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.“
• "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.“
• "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.“
• "Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.“

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