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“If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.”

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The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the…

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The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

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What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution…

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The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of…

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I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

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A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement…

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In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is…

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