"Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness."

"For Bacon as for Luther, “knowledge that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, a…"

"On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the c…"

"For enlightenment, anything which does not conform to the standard of calculability and utility must be viewed with s…"

"Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes dissimilar things comparable by reducing them to abstract quantit…"

"Das Wissen, das Macht ist, kennt keine Schranken, weder in der Versklavung der Kreatur noch in der Willfähigkeit gege…"

"Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. …"

"Myth sought to report, to name, to tell of origins—but therefore also to narrate, record, explain."

"Die Menschen bezahlen die Vermehrung ihrer Macht mit der Entfremdung von dem, worüber sie die Macht ausüben. Die Aufk…"

"Technology … aims to produce neither concepts nor images, nor the joy of understanding, but method, exploitation of t…"