Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engelswas a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1820
CityWuppertal, Germany
CountryGermany
Friedrich Engels quotes about
brain facts discovering
It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
horse stupid father
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.
science essence brain
One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?
moving civilization finals
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 time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.
science impossible
And what is impossible to science?
cities air way
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.
perfect-woman ifs worth-living
If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
together balzac i-have-learned
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
development communist-manifesto proletariat
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
firsts hegel states
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
taken reality thinking
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
communication party mean
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon - authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire...
wall adventure common-sense
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
used marxist late
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.