Karl Marx Quotes

Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.

Karl Marx

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• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Real
  • Cool
  • Opposite

• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I'm the kind of person, I leave a little space for better.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Space
  • Kind
  • Better

• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Agent
  • Simply
  • Ambassador

• Sequels are desperate.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Desperate
  • Sequels

• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Career
  • Practice

• The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  

  Alice Meynell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature

• Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Opinion
  • Path

• There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Political
  • Evil

• I didn't know if I was going to mention my period on stage, but then I figured, if Richard Pryor had a period, he would talk about it.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Period

• Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • Great

• Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • Time

• One can only be staggered by the hubris of modern artists if we compare them, say, to the humble builders of Chartres Cathedral whose names are not even known. The artist ought to be distinguished by selfless devotion to duty; but we forgot about that a long time ago.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Humble

• I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

  

  Alan Ball

• I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

  

  Eli Russell Linnetz
  • Freedom
  • Amazing
  • Creativity

• If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Live

• philosophy must obey its own rules and be based upon its own principles; truth, however, can only be one.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • Truth

• When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

  

  Kanye West
  • Past
  • Competition

• When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

  

  Kanye West
  • Water
  • Products
  • Shirts

• Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.

  

  Karl Marx