Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

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

[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality. ... [He was] Caesar himself.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.