Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
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Famous Theodor Adorno Quotes
Source: Adorno
Source: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
“The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: The Jargon of Authenticity
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
Source: Aesthetic Theory
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Essays on Music
“There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.”
“In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.”
“The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch”
Source: Essays on Music: Theodor W. Adorno ; Selected, with Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Richard Leppert ; New Translations by Susan H. Gillespie
Source: Essays on Music
Source: Essays on Music
“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
Source: Essays on Music
“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.”
Source: Essays on Music
“Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.”
Source: Minima Moralia
“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”
Source: Essays on Music
“He who matures early lives in anticipation.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.”
“But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Prisms
“Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Essays on Music