“
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
— Theodor W. Adorno
No quotes are currently available.
TW
Theodor W. Adorno
philosopher, composer, musicologist, sociologist, university teacher, literary critic, music critic, aphorist, pianist, writer, academic, aesthetician
1903 – 1969
Theodor W. Adorno was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm, and Herbert Marcuse, for whom the works of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and G. W. F. Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings—such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951), and Negative Dialectics (1966)—strongly influenced the European New Left.
All Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno
“
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
— 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
“
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
— 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
“
Intelligence is a moral category.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
— Theodor W. Adorno
“
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
— Theodor W. Adorno