Quote of Karl Marx - The philosophers have only interpreted the...

Biography - Karl Marx:

German philosopher, economist and political theorist.
Born: 1818 - Died: 1883
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach

Translation

(French, German)

Les philosophes n'ont fait qu'interpréter le monde de diverses manières ; ce qui importe, c'est de le transformer.”
Karl Marx - Thèses sur Feuerbach

Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert; es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern.”
Karl Marx - These über Feuerbach

Quotes about change:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
Alan Watts

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change alone is the constant.”
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena

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Quotes for: philosopher:

Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

The beard does not make the philosopher.”

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.”
William Shakespeare

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Quotes about the world:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

We admire the world through what we love.”
Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice

In this world we must be a little too good to be good enough.”
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux - The Game of Love and Chance

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Karl Marx also said...

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

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
Karl Marx

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.”
Karl Marx

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

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
Karl Marx

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
Karl Marx

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