Philosophy Quotes by Karl Marx

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it”

— Karl Marx

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

— Karl Marx

“As individuals express their life, so they are.”

— Karl Marx

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

— Karl Marx

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

— Karl Marx

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

— Karl Marx

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

— Karl Marx

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

— Karl Marx

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

— Karl Marx

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

— Karl Marx

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

— Karl Marx

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.

— Karl Marx

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. [ These words are also…

— Karl Marx

“Philosophy and the study of the real world have the same relation to one another as onanism and sexual love.”

— Karl Marx

“The head of this emancipation is philosophy; its heart is the proletariat. Philosophy cannot be realized without the abolition of the proletariat,…

— Karl Marx

“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to…

— Karl Marx

“The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban…

— Karl Marx

“The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something…

— Karl Marx

“The mystery of this courage of Bauer’s is Hegel’s Phenomenology. As Hegel here puts self-consciousness in the place of man, the most…

— Karl Marx

“Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only to open…

— Karl Marx

“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx