Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Theodor W. Adorno

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Theodor W. Adorno

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno