Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
Theodor W. Adornowas a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 September 1903
CountryGermany
Theodor Adorno quotes about
molotov-cocktail people trying
When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
echoes no-love
There is no love that is not an echo.
art order design
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
categories modernity qualitative
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
firsts principles ethics
The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.
successful people done
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.
psychology horror
Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
emotional democracy source
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
looks pleasure sinner
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
revenge mind criticism
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
integrating lost
He who integrates is lost.
revenge stupidity wish
The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity
hygiene irrelevance dying
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.
true-life
There is no true life within a false life.