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....

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery....

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with....

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

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

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

Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on....

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