Theodor W. Adorno

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

No emancipation without that of society.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

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

There is no love that is not an echo.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.