The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Quote by Theodor Adorno

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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

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

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

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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

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

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

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

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

He who integrates is lost.

He who integrates is lost.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his...

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his...

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization...

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and...

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.