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 Image
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Under conditions of a truly human existence, the difference between succumbing to disease at the age of ten, thirty, fifty, or seventy,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human… — 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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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