Theodor Adorno. Algunas citas:

All enjoyment that achieves emancipation from exchange values thereby acquires subversive characteristics.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

He who integrates is lost.

The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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

Intelligence is a moral category.

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

The intellectuals themselves are already so heavily committed to what is endorsed in their isolated sphere, that they no longer desire anything that does not carry the highbrow tag.

... everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I' .

The whole is the false.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.

Normality is death.

The only decent marriage would be one allowing each partner to lead an independent life, in which, instead of a fusion derived from an enforced community of economic interest, both freely accepted mutual responsibility.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presuppositions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly-founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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Y como dije el fin de semana pasado: si estas en una cantina y alguién comienza a citar a Adorno, es hora de pedir la cuenta...