QuotesBy.net


Home › Authors › T › Theodor Adorno

Quote #65

'Normality is death.'

— Theodor Adorno

More from Theodor Adorno

  1. 'None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.'
  2. 'Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.'
  3. 'No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.'
  4. 'Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.'
  5. 'No emancipation without that of society.'
  6. 'Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerab…
  7. 'Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.'
  8. 'People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in…

All Theodor Adorno quotes

← Theocritus All T authors Theodor Morell →

Related quotes

  • When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, 'Southern California's s… Thomas Pynchon
  • All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue. Thomas Warton
  • One is always afraid of upsetting their conventionalities. Queen of Romania Marie
  • Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on indivi… Wendell Berry
  • Death is the dies of life which is turned away from us. Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces. Pierre Corneille

Topics in this quote

  • philosophy
  • culture
  • psychology
  • death
  • conformity
  • normality

Related authors

  • Orson Scott Card
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Albert Camus
  • Noam Chomsky

Browse

  • Authors starting with T
  • All authors A–Z

QuotesBy.net