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One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

Friedrich Engels

And what is impossible to science?
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Impossible One Liner Science
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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Dream End Freedom Independence Knowledge Law Possibilty
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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Crime Law Philosophy
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
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Freedom Relationship Slave
Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source — next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth.
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Material Men Money Nature Political
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
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Class History Marriage Men Oppression Sex Woman
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
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Firsts Freedom Hegel Necessary States
In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
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Nomenclature Revolution Science Statistics Views
The state is not abolished, it withers away.
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Abandonment State
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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Circles Labour Movement Mean
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.
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Fear Order People Useless
Without analysis, no synthesis.
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Analysis One Liner Science
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.
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Air Cities Poor True Way
No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
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Freedom Nation Oppression
Life is the mode of action of proteins.
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Action Life Science
What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.
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Individual Philosophy Willing

One day we shall certainly ‘reduce’ thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

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