“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.” ThinkingLeftImpossibleEgoUnderstoodPhilosophicalAbolitionAloof Book:Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung Source: Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung
“Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite.” DemocracyOppositesTransformationPhilosophicalFoundationObstaclesStatementsDictatorshipTheoreticalDemocracies HaveBeneficiaries Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.” PeopleThinkingMindIdeasFormHumanityReligiousJusticePrinciplesSawsAliveDangerousHumilityTasteTruth IsElementsEternalHarmonyPhilosophicalConnectedOddConceptionRealisticMaximsTranscendentalLogosBrotherlyBrotherly LoveDeviateGreat Religious Author: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 which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.” SpiritCultureAttitudeMeditationPhilosophicalPracticalsPrevailingPragmatismCandorDisarming Book:Eclipse of Reason Source: Eclipse of Reason
