Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno More Quotes by Theodor Adorno More Quotes From Theodor Adorno The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent. Theodor Adorno errors intelligent stupid True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. Theodor Adorno The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno powerlessness tasks Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. Theodor Adorno shelter mother lying Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Theodor Adorno gestures technology men In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. Theodor Adorno underdog splendid ends The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch Theodor Adorno kitsch imitation art The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be. Theodor Adorno hatred might people Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Theodor Adorno crime uncommitted art The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno good-man doe men There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society. Theodor Adorno prophet needs The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. Theodor Adorno enlightened earth men Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. Theodor Adorno reflection self mean All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Theodor Adorno satire decay blind Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. Theodor Adorno tolerance mark personality Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno wrong-life life-changing life The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life. Theodor Adorno elements realization lying Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist. Theodor Adorno inner-life relation art Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. Theodor Adorno source democracy emotional Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Theodor Adorno auschwitz poetry writing
