Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Science, Medicine
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Isolation, Solitude
The product of mental labor—science—always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Science
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
—Karl Marx
In every stock-jobbing swindle, everyone knows that the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold.
—Karl Marx
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Work
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Politics
Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
—Karl Marx
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Happiness, Experience
Get out of here and leave me alone. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough already.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Speaking
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand
—Karl Marx
Topics: Religion
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Wealth, Riches
In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Ability, Socialism, Communism
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Politics
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
—Karl Marx
Topics: World
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Nature
All I know is I’m not a Marxist.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Socialism, Communism
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
—Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Capitalism
Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Self-Discovery
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
—Karl Marx
Topics: History
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Individuality
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Nations, Nationalism, Nationality, Nation
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Philosophy, Science
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them
—Karl Marx
Topics: Government
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Religion
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Revolutionaries, Revolution, Revolutions
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Authors & Writing, Creativity, Writers, Art
Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
—Karl Marx
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
—Karl Marx
Topics: Capitalism
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- Wilhelm Dilthey German Philosopher
- John Rawls American Philosopher
- Auguste Comte French Philosopher
- Jose Ortega y. Gasset Spanish Philosopher
- Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher, Scholar
- Friedrich Schleiermacher German Theologian
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