Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

Quote by Karl Marx

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the...

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Religion is the opium of the masses

Religion is the opium of the masses

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not...

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not...

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, &...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, &...

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our...

All that philosophers have done is interpret the world in different ways. It is our...

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he...

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he...

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least...

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least...

There is a history in all men's lives.

There is a history in all men's lives.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but...

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but...