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Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
— Theodor W. Adorno
There is no love that is not an echo.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.
— Theodor W. Adorno
In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.
— Theodor W. Adorno
But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.
— Theodor W. Adorno
There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.
— Theodor W. Adorno
There is no right life in the wrong one.
— Theodor W. Adorno
A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
— Theodor W. Adorno
There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.
— Theodor W. Adorno
In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.
— Theodor W. Adorno
If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Intellect's true concern is a negation of reification.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth
— Theodor W. Adorno
Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
— Theodor W. Adorno
On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
— Theodor W. Adorno
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
— Theodor W. Adorno
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.
— Theodor W. Adorno
To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home
— Theodor W. Adorno
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
— 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
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning
— Theodor W. Adorno
Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
— Theodor W. Adorno
There is no true life within a false life.
— Theodor W. Adorno
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime
— Theodor W. Adorno
One should never begrudge deletions.
— Theodor W. Adorno