261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

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

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.