Quotes by : Theodor W. Adorno

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

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

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry....

Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness.....

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

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The....

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate....

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that....