Theodor Adorno Quotes

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.