Theodor Adorno Quotes

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another l...

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by...

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite ...

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled o...

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

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

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one trie...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself in...

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.