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

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

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

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

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Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.Theodor Adorno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 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

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 the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.Theodor Adorno

Intelligence is a moral category.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

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

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

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 good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.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

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

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

Theodor Adorno was a famous German philosopher and sociologist, who was born on September 11, 1903. As a person born on this date, Theodor Adorno is listed in our database as the 70th most popular celebrity for the day (September 11) and the 47th most popular for the year (1903).

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