Occupation: Philosopher Birth: July 19, 1898 Death: June 29, 1979
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….
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, ce….
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear fo….
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden i….
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….
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence. Auth….
Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this meth….
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this ord….
While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to estab….
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order..
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is ….
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature..
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….
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by su….
One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art..
Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this….
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activit….
Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to c….
Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it..
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 ….
However, if "free choice" means more than a small selection between pre-established necessities, and if the inclinations and impulses used in work ar….