Theodor Adorno
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
age
Theodor Adorno
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
alone
Theodor Adorno
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
alone
Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
art
Theodor Adorno
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
art
Theodor Adorno
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
art
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.
art
Theodor Adorno
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
art
Theodor Adorno
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
best
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.
death
Theodor Adorno
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
freedom
Theodor Adorno
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
happiness
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.
happiness
Theodor Adorno
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
health
Theodor Adorno
Intelligence is a moral category.
intelligence
Theodor Adorno
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
life
Theodor Adorno
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
love
Theodor Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
love
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.
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