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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Capitalists Employed Labor Machines
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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.

Achieving Activity Ends History
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Conditions Creature Heart Heartless
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

English Generalization Lack Material
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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.

Absolutely Change Circumstances Different
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Been Class Has Been History
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Communism Europe Haunting Specter
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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.

Able Earn He Live
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Battles Does Fight History
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Always Art Confession Everywhere
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Capital Compulsion Health Laborer
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Cannot Deal Human Human Mind
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Abolition First Happiness People
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Doubt Greatly Increased Machinery
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Age Been Class Each
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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Female Measured Position Progress
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Landlords Like Love Men
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Antidote Mental Only Pain
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

History Locomotives Of Revolutions
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Many People Production Results
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The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Among Application Competition Division
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Future Goal Life Live
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Food Give Menu Metaphysics
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

After Arrived Know Only
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

First Hands Head Heart
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Away Door Go Go Away
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Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Alone Even He Others
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'

Marriage Word Pronounced mirage
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Great aim Education Knowledge Action
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Wise man Remember Past Future
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Society exist Benefit Members
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Government is essentially immoral.

Government Immoral
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Commonly see Diminution Freedom
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Misused words Generate Thought
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Man's knowledge Order Confusion
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Preservation Health Physical morality
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Living thing Dead Multiplicity Changes
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Continuous adjustment Internal relations
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Ultimate result Shielding men Effect World
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Objects Little happiness Gained
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Our lives Universally shortened Ignorance
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Divine right Means Uppermost
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Every cause produces more than one effect.

Every Produces Effect
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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education Object Character
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Cage Wild beast Law Selfish man
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Hero worship Strongest Human freedom
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Science Important thing Modify Advances
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage Ceremony Rings Finger
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Never entered Poetry Surrounded
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Government Grow Oppressive Thrown off
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