Theodor Adorno Quotes

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

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. Theodor Adorno

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. 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

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