If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.” — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
“Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share
