Friedrich Engels Quotes on Knowledge
Friedrich Engels was a 19th-century German philosopher, social scientist, and revolutionary, the closest collaborator of Karl Marx and a co-founder of the tradition of thought that bears Marx's name. This page collects quotes attributed to Friedrich Engels on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Engels:
“The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life is the basis of all social structure.”
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“Written under the pseudonym of Friedrich Oswald, “Telegraph für Deutschland”, Telegraph für Deutschland , Nos. 2-5, (January 1841)”
For I am of the opinion... that the reconquest of the German speaking left bank of the Rhine is a matter of national honour, and that the Germanisation of a disloyal Holland and of Belgium is a political necessity for us. Shall we let the German nationality be completely suppressed in these countries, while the Slavs are rising ever more powerfully in the East? -
“Letter to his sister, Marie (February 18, 1841)”
Today I have shaved my moustache off again and buried the youthful corpse with much wailing. I look like a woman; it is shameful; and if I had known that without a moustache I should look such a sight I would not have hacked it off. As I stood before the mirror, scissors in hand, and had shorn off the right side, the Old Man came into the office and had to laugh out loud, when he saw me with half -
“The Magyar Struggle in Neue Rheinische Zeitung (13 January 1849).”
For the first time in the revolutionary movement of 1848 , for the first time since 1793 , a nation surrounded by superior counter-revolutionary forces dares to counter the cowardly counter-revolutionary fury by revolutionary passion , the terreur blanche by the terreur rouge . For the first time after a long period we meet with a truly revolutionary figure, a man who in the name of his people dar -
“The Magyar Struggle in Neue Rheinische Zeitung (13 January 1849).”
There is no country in Europe which does not have in some corner or other one or several ruined fragments of peoples ( Völkerruinen ), the remnant of a former population that was suppressed and held in bondage by the nation which later became the main vehicle of historical development . These relics of a nation mercilessly trampled under foot in the course of history, as Hegel says, these residual -
“The Magyar Struggle in Neue Rheinische Zeitung (13 January 1849).”
How did this division of the nations come about, what was its basis? The division is in accordance with all the previous history of the nationalities in question. It is the beginning of the decision on the life or death of all these nations, large and small. All the earlier history of Austria up to the present day is proof of this and 1848 confirmed it. Among all the large and small nations of Aus