The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. Theodor W. Adorno More Quotes by Theodor W. Adorno More Quotes From Theodor W. Adorno Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. Theodor W. Adorno onlyexistencesocietyself 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. Theodor W. Adorno ownmoralmoneytime Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor W. Adorno livedwrongcannotlife Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Theodor W. Adorno self-disciplineyouplaywork The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor W. Adorno goodmangood-manpower Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor W. Adorno yourselfyoustrengthlove Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. Theodor W. Adorno nothingegoreflectiontoday Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. Theodor W. Adorno alsoalwayssicknesshealth Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Theodor W. Adorno everycrimeworkart In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. Theodor W. Adorno systemin-the-endendnothing Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor W. Adorno black-and-whiteblackfreedomwhite An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. Theodor W. Adorno handdifferencessocietyrealization He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Theodor W. Adorno imagelovedlovepast Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor W. Adorno seesimilaritypowerlove-islove The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Theodor W. Adorno human-beinghumanonlybeing Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. Theodor W. Adorno withinqualitydepthwork None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor W. Adorno thanutopiaabstractpeace Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor W. Adorno categoryqualitativemodernity The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor W. Adorno taskbringchaostodayart There is no love that is not an echo. Theodor W. Adorno echono-lovelove
