Karl Marx

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• Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

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• The more man puts into God, the less he retains in himself. The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him, but to the object.

  • Anti-God
  • Work

• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

  “Theses on Feuerbach” (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15

  • Change
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