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.
FRIEDRICH ENGELSHegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
More Friedrich Engels Quotes
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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.
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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.
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And what is impossible to science?
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The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
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Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.
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Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late ‘seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.
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I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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