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> [ “There exists \[a\] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part, yet only in part, by the already accomplished past; for a history which is present, which is living,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/there-exists-a-word-in-german-geschichte-which-designates-not/)

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## More by Louis Althusser

> [One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/one-of-the-goals-of-philosophy-is-wage-theoretical-battle-that-is-why/)

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> [What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/what-art-makes-us-see-and-therefore-gives-to-us-in-the-form-of-seeing/)

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> [In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/in-the-battle-that-is-philosophy-all-the-techniques-of-war-including/)

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> [The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/the-economic-class-struggle-is-a-struggle-against-inessanlty/)

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> [In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/in-truth-ideology-has-very-little-to-do-with-consciousness-even/)

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> [To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/to-philosophize-with-open-eyes-is-to-philosophize-in-the-dark-only/)

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> [“The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/the-proof-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating-so-what-we-are-interested/)

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> [Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/philosophy-is-in-the-last-instance-class-struggle-in-the-field-of/)

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> [Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/ideology-represents-the-imaginary-relationship-of-individuals-to/)

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> [Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/whatseems-to-take-place-outside-ideology-to-be-precise-in-the-street/)

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> [“Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/everything-that-happens-in-philosophy-has-in-the-last-instance-not/)

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> [ “There exists \[a\] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part, yet only… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/there-exists-a-word-in-german-geschichte-which-designates-not/)

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> [The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/the-ultimate-condition-of-production-is-therefore-the-reproduction-of/)

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> [“...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/marx-was-constrained-to-think-within-a-horizon-torn-between-the/)

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> [Relations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten that ideological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-althusser/relations-of-production-are-first-reproduced-by-the-materiality-of/)

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