Karl Mannheim

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed…

— Karl Mannheim

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the…

— Karl Mannheim

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and…

— Karl Mannheim

“ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted…

— Karl Mannheim

“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have…

— Karl Mannheim

All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it…

— Karl Mannheim

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge…

— Karl Mannheim

As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas…

— Karl Mannheim

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

— Karl Mannheim

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be…

— Karl Mannheim