For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.