quotes by Theodor W. Adorno

"Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime"
— Theodor W. Adorno

"People know what they want because they know what other people want."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. "
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity"
— Theodor W. Adorno

"It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."
— Theodor W. Adorno

"Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual."
— Theodor W. Adorno (Introduction to Sociology)

"Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth."
— Theodor W. Adorno