One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness as long as he has not found… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousness, are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society—the real foundation, on which rise legal and political… — Karl Marx Copy Share
“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 varied human reality appears only as a definite form, as a determination of self-consciousness. But a mere determination of self-consciousness is a “pure category,” a mere “thought” which I can consequently also abolish in “pure” thought and overcome… — Karl Marx Copy Share
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image