The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to ….

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony….

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control..

Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself..

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or m….

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of ….

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a pri….

Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this….

Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is ….

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will..

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and m….

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a….

The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of societ….

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppres….

A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the pre….

Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at ….

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring thes….

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual ….

When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the who….

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is ….

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom ….