Quotes By Theodor Adorno
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
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.
Theodor Adorno
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
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.
Theodor Adorno
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor Adorno
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor Adorno
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Theodor Adorno
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor Adorno
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno