"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."

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Source : Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.138, A&C Black

Max Horkheimer

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“I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.”
“Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.”
“Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all thatâ€™s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.”
“Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.”
“In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.”
“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”
“When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease, or choose to be tense. It's a choice, and that choice is up to no one but us to decide.”
“You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.”

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