261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Normality is death.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.