Quotes by Theodor Adorno

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.