Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism, — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
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