Theodor Adorno Mean Quotations

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

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

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

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.