"For Bacon as for Luther, “knowledge that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.” Its concern is not “satisfaction, which men call truth,” but “operation,” the effective procedure. The “true end, scope or office of knowledge” does not consist in “any plausible, delectable, reverend or admired discourse, or any satisfactory arguments, but in effecting and working, and in discovery of particulars not revealed before, for the better endowment and help of man’s life.” There shall be neither mystery nor any desire to reveal mystery."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
E. Jephcott, trans., p. 2
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dialectic_of_Enlightenment
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Dialectic of Enlightenment
51 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Dialectic of Enlightenment →
Related Quotes
"Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness."
"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…"
"The essence of things is revealed as always the same, a substrate of domination. This identity constitutes the unity …"
"Technology … aims to produce neither concepts nor images, nor the joy of understanding, but method, exploitation of t…"