Posts Quotes by Friedrich Engels

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

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

— Friedrich Engels

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

— Friedrich Engels

“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

— Friedrich Engels

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

— Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

— Friedrich Engels

“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

...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

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

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

— Friedrich Engels

“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

It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

— Friedrich Engels