Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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Without regard for differences, the world is made subject to man.
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Man’s likeness to God consists in sovereignty over existence, in the lordly gaze, in the command.
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Myth becomes enlightenment and nature mere objectivity.
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Enlightenment stands in the same relationship to things as the dictator to human beings. He knows them to the extent that he can manipulate them.
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the scientific object is petrified, whereas the rigid ritual of former times appears supple in its substitution of one thing for another.