Karl Marx Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

  Karl Marx

  Needs, Language, Consciousness

  "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. III, 30, 1845-1846.

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

  Karl Marx

  Men, Consciousness, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

• Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Class, Age

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.19, Haymarket Books

• Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Men, Doe

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.176, Cambridge University Press

• The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

  Karl Marx

  Past, History, Brain

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

  Karl Marx

  Freedom, Philosophical, Consciousness

• Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Determined, Consciousness

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.

  Karl Marx

  Determination, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing

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