Famous Theodor W Adorno Quotes

  • Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. – Theodor W Adorno

    Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.– Theodor W Adorno

  • On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them. – Theodor W Adorno

    On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.– Theodor W Adorno

  • The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. – Theodor W Adorno

    The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.– Theodor W Adorno

  • Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying. – Theodor W Adorno

    Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.– Theodor W Adorno

  • The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning – Theodor W Adorno

    The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning– Theodor W Adorno

  • In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation. – Theodor W Adorno

    In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.– Theodor W Adorno

  • Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness. – Theodor W Adorno

    Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.– Theodor W Adorno