The happy consciousness is shaky enough—a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust. - Herbert Marcuse

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain—it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes “separation of good from evil;” it establishes unquestionable

Hegel’s philosophy revolved about the universality of reason; it was a rational system with its every part (the subjective as well as the objective spheres) integrated into a comprehensive whole. Marx shows that capitalist society first put such a universality into practice. P. 286-287

It is the sphere farthest removed from the concreteness of society which may show most clearly the extent of the conquest of thought by society.