Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. – Theodor Adorno
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno
Normality is death. – Theodor Adorno
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. – Theodor Adorno
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Adorno
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. – Theodor Adorno
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. – Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. – Theodor Adorno
True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. – Theodor Adorno
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. – Theodor Adorno
