Adorno, Theodor

"Individuality, which the exchange society eliminates, is more than ever becoming the ideal."

"Every work of art carries within it a utopian moment."

"The particular resists the universal and yet depends on it."

"Thought strains against its own barriers."

"The worse off freedom gets, the more it is extolled."

"To be fully human, one must refuse identification with the false totality."

"Art's utopian dimension lies precisely in its uselessness."

"Late capitalism administers everything, even non-identity."

"Consciousness of suffering is itself a form of suffering."

"The authentic subject has become a relic."

"Meaning requires rupture, not continuity."

"The standardization of consciousness prevents the consciousness of standardization."

"Freedom consists in the insight into necessity."

"The culture industry reproduces not images but ideologies."

"Negativity is the only path to truth."

"Art must remain opaque to its own instrumental purposes."

"The exchange relation colonizes all domains of life."

"Suffering has truth; happiness is ideology."

"True knowledge resists reconciliation with reality."

"The administered world allows no escape except through art."

"The social totality cannot be thought as a harmonious whole."

"Praxis without theory is blind; theory without praxis is empty."

"Language both expresses and conceals the violence of reason."

"The commodity form penetrates even the deepest layers of subjectivity."

"Authentic experience has become nearly impossible in the modern world."