261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

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

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

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.