In the world of action, we know that it is disastrous to treat animals or human beings as though they were stocks and stones. Why should we suppose t… - Max Horkheimer

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.

Subjective reason … is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one for institutionalized mythology, thus recognizing both of them. For the philosophy of objective reason there is no such way out. Since it hold to the concept of objective truth, it must take a positive or a negative stand with regard to the content of established religion.

Pragmatism … reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of ‘being practical’ as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.