Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

— Theodor Adorno

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

— Theodor Adorno

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

— Theodor Adorno

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

— Theodor Adorno

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Theodor Adorno

Intelligence is a moral category.

— Theodor Adorno

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

— Theodor Adorno

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

— Theodor Adorno

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

— Theodor Adorno