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Max Horkheimer Quotes

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow Picture Quote #1

The Revolution won’t happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism Picture Quote #1

Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper Picture Quote #1

Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man’s actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned Picture Quote #1

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything Picture Quote #1

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief Picture Quote #1

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Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism Picture Quote #1

When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them Picture Quote #1

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time Picture Quote #1

The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society Picture Quote #1

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant Picture Quote #1

The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception Picture Quote #1

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With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left.... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood Picture Quote #1

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete Picture Quote #1

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies.... Subjective reason conforms to anything Picture Quote #1

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Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow (Max Horkheimer Quotes) The Revolution won’t happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and their political offices, transforming them slowly into Marxist entities as we move towards universal egalitarianism (Max Horkheimer Quotes) Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper (Max Horkheimer Quotes) Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man’s actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned (Max Horkheimer Quotes) The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything. (Max Horkheimer Quotes) A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief (Max Horkheimer Quotes) Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism (Max Horkheimer Quotes) When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them (Max Horkheimer Quotes) The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time (Max Horkheimer Quotes) The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society (Max Horkheimer Quotes) Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant (Max Horkheimer Quotes) The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception (Max Horkheimer Quotes) With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left.... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood (Max Horkheimer Quotes) Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete (Max Horkheimer Quotes) The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies.... Subjective reason conforms to anything (Max Horkheimer Quotes)