Ernst Bloch Quotes
Ernst Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher and one of the most original utopian thinkers of the twentieth century. After early association with Lukacs and Walter Benjamin, he spent the Nazi years in exile in the United States, then returned in 1949 to East Germany, from which he eventually fled to the West after the 1961 erection of the Berlin Wall. The quotes below are attributed to Ernst Bloch, organized by topic.
Ernst Bloch on God
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Attributed to Ernst Bloch:
“Where there is hope, there is also religion.”
Ernst Bloch on Mind
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Attributed to Ernst Bloch:
“Hope is the most human of all mental feelings.”
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Attributed to Ernst Bloch:
“The Not-Yet-Conscious is the deepest character of every existence.”
Ernst Bloch on Politics
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Attributed to Ernst Bloch:
“The genuinely revolutionary is the still unfinished, the not-yet-realized.”
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Attributed to Ernst Bloch:
“Dreams of a better life have been part of human history since its beginning.”