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Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.
Herbert Marcuse
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Herbert Marcuse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 19
Died: 1979
Died: July 29
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
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The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes separation of good from evil it establishes unquestionable
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The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.
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The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
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If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology.
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The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
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One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.
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Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
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Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
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The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.
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Precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt , it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt . It remains essentially within the basic experiential framework and within the universe of ends set by this reality.
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The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
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Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.
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