Quotes by Theodor Adorno

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

Theodor Adorno

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Theodor Adorno

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Theodor Adorno

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Theodor Adorno

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Theodor Adorno

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Theodor Adorno

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Theodor Adorno

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Theodor Adorno

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Theodor Adorno

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Theodor Adorno

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Theodor Adorno

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

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

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

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

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

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Theodor Adorno