Quotes About Life

Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.

Everyone of our relationships with nature and man must be a definite expression of our real, individual life.

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general.

Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

Life is struggle.

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.

Maddi yaÅŸamdaki üretim biçimi, yaÅŸam?n toplumsal, siyasal ve düÅŸünsel sürecinin genel niteliÄŸine egemendir. Ä°nsanlar?n varl?klar?n? belirleyen ÅŸey, bilinçleri deÄŸildir; tam tersine, onlar?n bilinçlerini, toplumsal varl?klar? belirler.

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.

The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose principles are not yet firm and whose convictions are not yet strong and unshakeable.

All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and stultifying human life into a material force.

Die Entfremdung erscheint sowohl darin, daß mein Lebensmittel eines andern ist, daß das, was mein Wunsch, der unzugängliche Besitz eines andern ist, als daß jede Sache selbst ein andres als sie selbst, als daß meine Tätigkeit ein andres, als endlich – und das gilt auch für den Kapitalisten – daß überhaupt die unmenschliche Macht her[rscht].

The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level.

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)

Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.

A life without death would be like a day without sleep.

I never believed me mam when she finished a story with 'And they all lived happily ever after'. 'No, they didn't. I don't believe it,' I'd say. I prefered Humpty Dumpty – nice and short, and a realistic ending. He never hurt anyone, but he had a little accident and died. Shit happens. That's life, innit.

Karl Pilkington

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change me life.

I must be so lucky, as I'd been using the boiler without the plastic ring for ages and me and Suzanne are still alive (I wish there was a sarcasm font).

When you are BE-ing the kind of person that is most desirable for you to BE, then you will automatically DO the best you can DO—then you will HAVE the peace and whatever else is most desirable in life for you to HAVE.