Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean…

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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden...

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened...

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened...

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market...

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking...

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence...

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence...

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be...

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be...

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,...

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,...

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition...

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny...

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than...

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than...

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America...

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America...

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment...

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment...

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly...

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense...

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense...

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is...