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Biography - Karl Marx:

German philosopher, economist and political theorist.
Born: 1818 - Died: 1883
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Karl Marx


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Ce n'est pas la conscience des hommes qui détermine leur être; c'est inversement leur être social qui détermine leur conscience.
Karl Marx

German
Es ist nicht das Bewusstsein der Menschen, das ihr Sein, sondern umgekehrt ihr gesellschaftliches Sein, das ihr Bewusstsein bestimmt.
Karl Marx



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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Niccolo Machiavelli / 





Become who you are!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil / 





I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 






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Quotes for: consciousness


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Quotes for: consciousness


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel / 





Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Leibniz / 





World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 





Consciousness is a link between what was and what will be; a bridge between the past and the future.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle / 





Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus / 





Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 






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Karl Marx also said...


The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach / 





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.
Karl Marx / 





Our wants and pleasures have their origin in society; we therefore measure them in relation to society; we do not measure them in relation to the objects which serve for their gratification. Since they are of a social nature, they are of a relative nature.
Karl Marx - Wage Labour and Capital / 





When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
Karl Marx





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.
Karl Marx





The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx







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