From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

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

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.