Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Theodor W. Adorno

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : September 11, 1903

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

Theodor W. Adorno

No emancipation without that of society.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Theodor W. Adorno

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Theodor W. Adorno

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

Theodor W. Adorno

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Theodor W. Adorno

He who integrates is lost.

Theodor W. 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 W. Adorno

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Theodor W. Adorno

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Theodor W. Adorno

The whole is the false.

Theodor W. Adorno

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Theodor W. Adorno

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Theodor W. Adorno

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Theodor W. Adorno

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Theodor W. Adorno