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> [“Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a stand against reality have no choice but to obliterate themselves by identifying with it. They are never rationally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/although-most-people-never-overcome-the-habit-of-berating-the-world/)

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## More by Max Horkheimer

> [Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/philosophy-is-overwhelmingly-complicated-its-procedure-depressingly/)

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> [The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/the-inversion-of-external-compulsion-into-the-compulsion-of/)

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> [The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/the-endeavor-of-scientific-research-to-see-events-in-their-more/)

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> [Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/pragmatism-reflects-with-almost-disarming-candor-the-spirit-of-the/)

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> [At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/at-present-when-the-prevailing-forms-of-society-have-become/)

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> [The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/the-quality-of-the-human-that-precludes-identifying-the-individual/)

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> [Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/whoever-is-not-prepared-to-talk-about-capitalism-should-also-remain/)

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> [Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/reason-as-an-organ-for-perceiving-the-true-nature-of-reality-and/)

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> [Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/subjective-reason-is-inclined-to-abandon-the-fight-with-religion-by/)

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> [In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/in-the-face-of-the-idea-that-truth-might-afford-the-opposite-of/)

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> [Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/although-the-formulations-of-science-now-offer-the-most-advanced/)

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> [Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/once-the-philosophical-foundation-of-democracy-has-collapsed-the/)

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> [Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/plato-and-his-objectivistic-successors-preserved-the-awareness-of/)

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> [Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/reason-has-never-really-directed-social-reality-but-now-reason-has/)

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> [The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/the-disparagement-of-empirical-evidence-in-favor-of-a-metaphysical/)

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