Max Horkheimer Quotes on Mind
Max Horkheimer was a 20th-century German philosopher and sociologist, the founder of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt and the central organising figure of what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory. This page collects quotes attributed to Max Horkheimer on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Max Horkheimer:
“Reason for centuries has meant the activity of understanding and assimilating the eternal ideas which were to function as goals for men.”
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“The more ideas have become automatic, instrumentalised, the less does anybody see in them thoughts with a meaning of their own.”
pp. 21-22. -
“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”
p. 133. -
“Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.”
p. 133. -
“Leibniz’s theory on the subject as substantia ideans in the sense of a causative agent of decision and acts stands much closer to a materialist interpretation of history than does a philosophy which reduces the thinking subject to the role of subsuming protocol sentences under general propositions and deducing other sentences from them.”
p. 149.