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Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Karl Marx
Life, Determined, Consciousness
Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Karl Marx
Life, Happiness, Philosophical
Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Karl Marx
Life, Real, Party
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

Karl Marx
Life, Negative, Reason
Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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