The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.