Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.