Theodor W Adorno quotes

Intelligence is a moral category.

Normality is death.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.