261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

There is no right life in the wrong one.

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art – instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

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

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.