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

In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.

In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.