Max Horkheimer Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Max Horkheimer:
“What is at stake is not the conservation of the past, but the redemption of the hopes of the past.”
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“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. -
“Logical empiricism holds the view, notwithstanding some its assertions, that the forms of knowledge and consequently the relations of man to nature and to other men never change. According to rationalism, too, all subjective and objective potentialities are rooted in insights which the individual already possesses, but rationality uses existing objects as well as the active inner striving and ideas of man to construct standards for the future. In this regard, it is not so closely associated with the present order as is empiricism .”
p. 148. -
“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.