Materialism
Materialism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
10 thinkers361 quotesTop field: Philosophy
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
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🇩🇪Karl Marx
Philosophy
Materialism
1867–1894
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."
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🇫🇷Gilles Deleuze
Philosophy
materialism
1925–1995
"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"
23 quotes
🇩🇪Gustav Landauer
Philosophy
Materialism
1870–1919
"Now it can become clear to man that freedom and peace of the nations can only come when as Jesus and his followers, and in our time above all Tolstoi advised, they choose to fully abstain from any violence."
5 quotes
🇩🇪Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Philosophy
Materialism
1804–1872
"I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood."
32 quotes
🇫🇷Henri Lefebvre
Literature
Materialism
1901–1991
"Only a vast inventory of the elements of our culture - in other words of our consciousness of life - will enable us to see clearly."
9 quotes
🇦🇷Mario Bunge
Philosophy
Materialism
1919–2020
"At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments."
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🇬🇧Perry Anderson
Philosophy
Materialism
b. 1938
"The greater pleasures of reading the LRB are thus paid for in a more erratic and limited horizon."
32 quotes
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🇺🇸Marvin Harris
Education
Materialism
1927–2001
1 quotes
🇺🇸Stephen Stich
Philosophy
Materialism
b. 1943
1 quotes
🇺🇸Allen Ginsberg
Literature
Materialism
1926–1997
"The war is language,language abusedfor Advertisement,language usedlike magic for power on the planet."
18 quotes
Notable Quotes
"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles."
— Karl Marx, b. 1867View →
"Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes."
— Karl Marx, b. 1867View →
"[B]y quarrelling amongst themselves, instead of confederating, Germans and Scandinavians, both of them belonging to the same great race, only prepare the way for their hereditary enemy, the Slav."
— Karl Marx, b. 1867View →
"What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose."
— Karl Marx, b. 1867View →
"If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them."
— Karl Marx, b. 1867View →