Quotes by : Theodor W. Adorno

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

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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