Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

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

“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.”

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”

“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”

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

“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”