If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in… — Herbert Marcuse

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not — in his mind — undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.

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