261 Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.