“The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. … Subjective reason conforms to anything.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason (1947), pp. 24-25.

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German philosopher and sociologist 1895–1973

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