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
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- The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
- Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
- It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
- Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
- Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.