This Society Turns Everything It Touches Into

It Is Generally Admitted That The Cultural Values (humanization) And The Existing Institutions And Policies Of Society Are Rarely,if Ever, In Harmony. This Opinion Has Found Expression In The Distinction Between Culture And Civilization, According To Which "culture" Refers To Some Higher Dimension Of Human Autonomy And Fulfillment, While "civilization" Designates The Realm Of Necessity, Of Socially Necessary Work And Behavior, Where Man Is Not Really Himself And In His Own Element But Is Subject To Heteronomy, To External Conditions And Needs.

There Is No Free Society Without Silence, Without The Internal And External Spaces Of Solitude In Which The Individual Freedom Can Develop.

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.

One Will Only Be Free When One Plays And One's Society Will Become A Piece Of Art.

One Can Delineate The Domain Of Philosophy However One Likes, But In Its Search For Truth, Philosophy Is Always Concerned With Human Existence. Authentic Philosophizing Refuses To Remain At The Stage Of Knowledge […]. Care For Human Existence And Its Truth Makes Philosophy A 'practical Science' In The Deepest Sense, And It Also Leads Philosophy—and This Is The Crucial Point—into The Concrete Distress Of Human Existence.