Theodor W. Adorno

Quotes

• “Today the order of life allows no room for the ego to draw spiritual or intellectual conclusions. The thought which lead...”
• “They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historica...”
• “It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that ...”
• “Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is...”
• “Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only k...”
• “A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, bu...”
• “On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men ...”
• “In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.”
• “The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning”
• “The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
• “Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.”
• “Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.”