Karl Heinrich Marx Quotes

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce. ~ Jacques Monod

The second decade of the twenty-first century - just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, early LGBT rights theorists, ignited the idea of same-sex freedom in 1868 - we find ourselves in a heady, global maelstrom of unimaginable liberation and continued stark oppression. ~ Michael Bronski

Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. "Death and another are closely pursuing me! ~ Friedrich Heinrich Karl De La Motte Fouque

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them. ~ Heinrich Karl Bukowski

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. ~ Karl Kraus

Free education for all children in public schools ... Combination of education with industrial production ~ Karl Marx

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. ~ Karl Marx

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression. ~ Karl Marx

I want to sit around a fire with rascals and bank robbers and ex-prisoners and Gypsies and Gurkhas and Aztecs and Apaches and talk about the afterlife and Voodoo and Witchcraft and prophesies and genius and star clusters.

I want to sit with these people and discuss their anxieties and indecisions and what scares them.

And I want to laugh at our spontaneity. ~ Karl Wiggins

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being. ~ Karl Popper

I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. ~ Karl Pilkington

Where you are is what you eat. When I'm in London I'll have beans on toast for lunch. On holiday - what? Tapas? Go on then I'll have a bit. You eat whatevers in that area. ~ Karl Pilkington

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historical mission and the justification of capitalism are, in his eyes, to prepare the conditions for a
superior mode of production. This mode of production is not in itself revolutionary; it will only be the
consummation of the revolution. Only the fundamental principles of bourgeois production are
revolutionary. When Marx affirms that humanity only sets itself problems it can solve, he is
simultaneously demonstrating that the germ of the solution of the revolutionary problem is to be found in
the capitalist system itself. Therefore he recommends tolerating the bourgeois State, and even helping to
build it, rather than returning to a less industrialized form of production. The proletariat can and must
accept the bourgeois revolution as a condition of the working-class revolution. ~ Albert Camus

I last visited White Hart Lane in early February 2016, and as I took my seat, after a few pints in the (TV-less) concourse, in the upper tier of the South-West corner I couldn't help but notice the tumbleweed rolling around the ground. The stony silence from areas of the ground where I would normally expect the home fans to be sitting was deafening, and the whole ground was reminiscent of a ghost town.
Whenever the magnificent Watford support ceased singing for a brief second or two I could hear the hollow, dry wind, and I found the desolate, dry and humourless atmosphere all rather eerie.
But here's the weird thing. If I squinted my eyes it almost appeared as if 36,000 people were sitting in seats around the ground, and the only conclusion I could draw was that it just one guy and that it was all done with mirrors. ~ Karl Wiggins

Did you really think I would sell you out? ~ Karl Malone

Time is distance, and when it is suspended, we are no longer in the world but a part of the world. That is what the music of Orpheus did to the women who in a kind of collective trance or ecstasy tore his head off and tossed it into the sea, where it drifted slowly away, still singing. ~ Karl Ove Knausgaard

There's only two things you can start without a plan: a riot and a family, for everything else you need a plan. ~ Groucho Marx

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go. ~ Heinrich Boll

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist. ~ Karl Pearson

Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. ~ Patricia Marx

Neither the next day, nor the day after that, did M. Folantin's unhappiness dissipate; he simply let himself drift, incapable of resisting this crushing feeling of depression. Mechanically, under a rainy sky, he would make his way to his office; then he would leave it, eat, and go to bed at nine, only to resume the following day the exact same routine; little by little he slid into complete spiritual apathy. ~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. ~ Karl Weierstrass

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh ... now you tell me what you know. ~ Groucho Marx

Let's be honest, Carefree Scamps have rarely been accused of being the epitome of virtue, and that's because we intermittently break the rules. Yet despite this we are often charming enough for others around us to make allowances. "He's just prone to being misled. ~ Karl Wiggins

But just below the grim tranquility he had learned to display, he cursed with boiling intensity the ambitious men who used him and his troops to further their careers. He cursed the air wing for not trying to get any choppers in through the clouds. He cursed the diplomats arguing about round and square tables. He cursed the South Vietnamese making money off the black market. He cursed the people back home gorging themselves in front of their televisions. Then he cursed God. Then there was no one else to blame and he cursed himself for thinking God would give a shit. ~ Karl Marlantes

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. ~ Heinrich Boll

A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity. ~ Karl Kraus

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. ~ Heinrich Heine

Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast. ~ Heinrich Heine

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars? ~ Groucho Marx

The Vienna Circle was empiricist and phenomenalist, Popper was a critical rationalist. ~ Karl R. Popper

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique. ~ Karl Marlantes