The imagery of myths, too, can be traced back without exception to natural conditions. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The mythical dualism does not lead outside the circle of existence. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Humans believe themselves free of fear when there is no longer anything unknown. #DialecticofEnlightenment

But this dialectic remains powerless as long as it emerges from the cry of terror, which is the doubling, the mere tautology of terror itself. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The cry of terror called forth by the unfamiliar becomes its name. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Its hatred is directed at the image of the vanquished primeval world and its imaginary happiness. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Power and labor diverge. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The fake myth of fascism reveals itself as the genuine myth of prehistory, in that the genuine myth beheld retribution while the false one wreaks it blindly on its victims. #DialecticofEnlightenment

That is the verdict which critically sets the boundaries to possible experience. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Adorno & Horkheimer's Dialectic and Enlightenment is so far just pages and pages of facts where I said, "Yes!" to every sentence. #adornohorkheimer #dialecticofenlightenment #philosophy

Receiving all its subject matter from myths, in order to destroy them, it falls as judge under the spell of myth. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The autonomy of thought in relation to objects, as manifested in the reality-adequacy of the Ego, was a prerequisite for the replacement of the localized practices of the medicine man by all-embracing industrial technology. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The world of magic still retained differences whose traces have vanished even in linguistic forms. #DialecticofEnlightenment

In it there is no specific representation: something which is a sacrificial animal cannot be a god. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Magic implies specific representation. What is done to the spear, the hair, the name of the enemy, is also to befall his person; the sacrificial animal is slain in place of the god. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Magic is bloody untruth, but in it domination is not yet disclaimed by transforming itself into a pure truth underlying the world which it enslaves. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Their 'in-itself' becomes 'for him.' #DialecticofEnlightenment

Enlightenment stands in the same relationship to things as the dictator to human beings. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Man's likeness to God consists in sovereignty over existence, in the lordly gaze, in the command. #DialecticofEnlightenment

In Homer Zeus controls the daytime sky, Apollo guides the sun; Helios and Eos are already passing over into allegory. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The myths which the tragic dramatists drew on were already marked by the discipline and power which Bacon celebrated as the goal. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Each ritual contains a representation of how things happen and of the specific process which is to be influenced by magic. #DialecticofEnlightenment

But the myths which fell victim to the Enlightenment were themselves its products. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The same equations govern bourgeois justice and commodity exchange. #DialecticofEnlightenment

For Bacon, too, there was a clear logical connection, through degrees of generality, linking the highest principles to propositions based on observation. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Enlightenment is totalitarian. #DialecticofEnlightenment

The reason is that enlightenment also recognizes itself in the old myths. #DialecticofEnlightenment

Once the movement is able to develop unhampered by external oppression, there is no holding it back. #DialecticofEnlightenment

For enlightenment, anything which does not conform to the standard of calculability and utility must be viewed with suspicion. #DialecticofEnlightenment