Max Horkheimer Quote

When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which he organizes given facts and shapes them into a theory. The methods and categories as well as the transformation of the theory can be understood only in connection with his taking of sides. This, in turn, discloses both his sound common sense and the character of the world. Right thinking depends as much on right willing as right willing on right thinking.


p. 162. - "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937)


When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which...

When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which...

When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which...

When an active individual of sound common sense perceives the sordid state of the world, desire to change it becomes the guiding principle by which...