The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence. Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge […]. Care for human existence and its truth makes philosophy a 'practical science' in the deepest sense, and it also leads philosophy—and this is the crucial point—into the concrete distress of human existence.

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false concreteness - a concreteness isolated from the conditions which constitute its reality. In this context, the operational treatment of the concept assumes a political function. The individual and his behavior are analyzed in a therapeutic sense - adjustment to his society. Thought and expression, theory and practice are to be brought in line with the facts of his existence without leaving room for the conceptual critique of these facts.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.