Character Quote by Max Horkheimer

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

— Max Horkheimer

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

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

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

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

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

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism,

— Max Horkheimer

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

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

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

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

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