“The concept of God was for a long time the place where the idea was kept alive that there are other norms besides those to which nature and society give expression in their operation.”

— Max Horkheimer

"Thoughts on Religion," Critical Theory: Selected Essays (1995), p. 129.

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German philosopher and sociologist 1895–1973

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