Quotes by : Theodor W. Adorno

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

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great....

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting....

Philosophy, which once seemed outmoded, remains alive because the moment of its realization was missed.....

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....

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently....

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

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to....

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning