Quotes About Theory

My dialectical method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite.

Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.

The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation of single individuals and of civil society [bürgerlichen Gesellschaft].

All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.

What makes them representatives of the petty bourgeoisie is the fact that in their minds they do not get beyond the limits which the latter do not get beyond in life, that they are consequently driven, theoretically, to the same problems and solutions to which material interest and social position drive the latter in practice. This is, in general, the relationship between the political and literary representatives of a class and the class they represent.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.