Philosopher · German · 1903 – 1969 · 79 quotes
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno
Philosopher · German · 1903 – 1969
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
No emancipation without that of society.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
He who matures early lives in anticipation.
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Normality is death.
He who integrates is lost.
The whole is the false.
