Herbert Marcuse Quotes on Life
Herbert Marcuse was a 20th-century German-American philosopher and a leading figure of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, particularly in its American period. This page collects quotes attributed to Herbert Marcuse on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Herbert Marcuse:
“The people recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.”
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“In conditions of private property … “life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.”
The Foundations of Historical Materialism," Studies in Critical Philosophy (1972), p. 32 -
“As the German idealists saw it, the French Revolution not only abolished feudal absolutism , replacing it with the economic and political system of the middle class , but it completed what the German Reformation had begun, emancipating the individual as a self-reliant master of his life. p. 3”
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“Man alone has the power of self-realization, the power to be a self-determining subject in all processes of becoming, for he alone has an understanding of potentialities and a knowledge of ‘notions.’ His very existence is the process of actualizing his potentialities, of molding his life according to the notions of reason. P. 9”
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