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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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Literature is the question minus the answer.

Answer Literature Minus Question
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Chains Move Notice Those
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Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Advance Blood Democracy Flesh
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The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Classes Country Course Every
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Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Alone Course Democracy Development
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Creating Development Leaders Masses
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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Becomes Democracy Destinies Determination
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Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
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History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Best History Only Proletariat
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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Built Decisive Element Final
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Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Freedom Government Members Numerous
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Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
Always Marxism Must New
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Always Differently Freedom Thinks
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Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

Aim Between Democracy Exists
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Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

Antagonism Capitalist Credit Destruction
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Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Alexander Apparent Collapse Depression
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People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

Against Capitalist Conditions Conscious
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Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Accelerate Action Although Determining
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The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
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Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Created Form Framework Last
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Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Because Both Conquest Contrary
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In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Acquire Capitalist Countries Era
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Been Eclectic Far Fun
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Code Image Message Photographic
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Always Invisible Photograph See
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Ahead Alienation Day Escape
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Fashion New Value
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Any Blame Call Discourse
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Confession Lie Myth Neither
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Image Itself Passion Public
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Block Creates Itself Man
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Einstein Formula Image Knowledge
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Claim Condition Contradiction Full
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Being Clearly Deal Ending
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Angels Government Men Necessary
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Abroad Against Charged Danger
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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Advantage Afraid Almost American
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Come Enemy Fighting Foreign
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Administer Assemble Citizens Consisting
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Abuse Essence Ever Government
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Believe Freedom Gradual I Believe
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