Karl Marx Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

• 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

• As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Real, Party

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

• Ideas do not exist separately from language.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, Language

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

• But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

  Karl Marx

  Spiritual, Class, Common Sense

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