Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.