Karl Mannheim Quotes on Truth
Karl Mannheim was a Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher and one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge. This page collects quotes attributed to Karl Mannheim on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
-
Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“The sociology of knowledge is the theory of the social or existential conditioning of thought.”
-
Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“Ideologies are the ideas which serve a particular interest.”
-
Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“Thought, even in its most abstract form, is rooted in the conditions of human existence.”
-
Attributed to Karl Mannheim:
“Genuine self-knowledge requires that we understand the social location of our thought.”