If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;"… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
“As Hegel defines it: "Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us." ... Reason is the negation of the negative.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share
