Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

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.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.