Quotes Theodor Adorno

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing ...

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battal...

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you....

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which ...

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a un...

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews....

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth....

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right t...

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving o...

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain....

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercio...

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests...

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of di...

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime....

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always ref...

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also....

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly...

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a pl...

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but t...

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic....

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof....

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to ...

He who integrates is lost....

He who matures early lives in anticipation....

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself bette...