Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Marxwas a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia to a middle-class family, he later studied political economy and Hegelian philosophy. As an adult, Marx became stateless and spent much of his life in London, England, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and published various works, the most well-known being the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto. His work has since influenced subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 May 1818
CityTrier, Germany
CountryGermany
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex
Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.
Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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.
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.
Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.
When we bought this house, we designated this room the library,