Philosophy Quotes

"All legal order rests ultimately on a decision that cannot be legalized."

"Reason alone cannot adjudicate between fundamental political differences."

"The decision is the absolute beginning that cannot be derived from antecedent norms."

"All concepts carry within them traces of their political origin."

"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational."

"Consciousness is a sickness."

"Spirit is content; it is the absolute substance."

"Reason is substance."

"Thought is being; being is thought."

"Language is the realization of thought."

"The individual must transcend themselves to find meaning."

"To be conscious is to suffer."

"Philosophy is thinking about thinking."

"Two things awe me most: the starry sky above and the moral law within."

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

"Everything is created for a definite purpose."

"A categorical imperative would be a proposition which represented an action as necessary."

"For man, the proper study of mankind is man."

"Every occurrence has a cause."

"Being is the basic concept."

"The need which the exchange-society generates is the need to forget."

"Thought is the effort to resist total integration into the logic of the system."

"The dialectic of Enlightenment shows how reason itself became instrumental domination."

"Autonomy is the capacity to think against oneself, against what one has been made to be."

"The culture industry does not lie; it tells the truth in such a way that truth becomes false."

"Identity is not something one discovers; it is something imposed by the machinery of society."

"Authenticity is a concept that has been so thoroughly commodified that it no longer exists."

"True critique requires standing nowhere, speaking from the fissures in the system."

"The most dangerous person is one who thinks they are free while remaining thoroughly administered."

"The dialectic shows us that what we call progress contains within it the seeds of barbarism."