Confronted With Such A Variety Most Philosophers

Every Profession Has An Ideology And A Drive For Power That Goes Far Beyond Its Achievements And It Is The Task Of Democracy To Keep This Ideology And This Drive Under Control. Science Is Here No Different From Other Institutions.

A Universal Good Should Reflect The Reality Of The Individual Benefits That Are Collected Under Its Name, Not The Other Way Around.

In A War A Totalitarian State Has A Free Hand.

Experience Arises Together With Theoretical Assumptions Not Before Them, And An Experience Without Theory Is Just As Incomprehensible As Is (allegedly) A Theory Without Experience.

It Is Clear, Then, That The Idea Of A Fixed Method, Or Of A Fixed Theory Of Rationality, Rests On Too Naive A View Of Man And His Social Surroundings. To Those Who Look At The Rich Material Provided By History, And Who Are Not Intent On Impoverishing It In Order To Please Their Lower Instincts, Their Craving For Intellectual Security In The Form Of Clarity, Precision, "objectivity," "truth," It Will Become Clear That There Is Only One Principle That Can Be Defended Under All Circumstances And In All Stages Of Human Development. It Is The Principle: Anything Goes.