The most cowardly men, unable to resist, become merciless when they can manifest their absolute parental authority.
Freedom is so characteristic of man that even its opponents understand this when they fight against its realization.
Faith free from any doubt in the authenticity of the love expressed by those who love is for the loved one a supreme pleasure, it is her faith in herself.
The free development of everyone is the condition for the free development of all.
The human heart is an amazing thing, especially if the man carries his heart in his bag.
The death of heroes is like a sunset.
Consciousness depends on science and the whole way of life of man. A republican has a different conscience from a royalist, a rich man has a different conscience from a poor man, a thinker has a different conscience from one who is unable to think.
The "consciousness" of the privileged is indeed a privileged consciousness.
The means of production of material life determines the social, political and spiritual process.
Suffering, understood in the human sense, is man's self-consummation.
Passion is an essentially human power that tends vigorously toward its object.
Shame is a kind of anger, but directed inward.
Shame is a kind of revolution.
The essential form of spirit is joy, light.
The existence of what I really love I feel as something necessary, and without it my existence cannot be full, satisfied, perfect.
There are two kinds of courage: the courage of superiority and the courage of intellectual wretchedness, which finds its strength in its official position, from the consciousness that it wields in battle a privileged weapon.
What can be said about man's attitude towards his own work, can also be said about man's attitude towards another man.
The one who has been fascinated by the demon of ambition, the mind can no longer stop him, and he throws himself where this force irresistibly attracts him: he does not choose his place in society, but it is determined by chance and illusion.
What the petty bourgeois wants - namely: to live and reproduce - doesn't he also want an animal? The sense of one's own human dignity, of freedom, must be awakened in the hearts of these people. Only this sense, which left the world with the Greeks, and in the time of Christianity dissolved into the deceptive mirage of the kingdom of heaven, can again make society a community of men assembled in the name of their highest goals.
Only in a collective are there means for each individual to enable him to fully develop his abilities, and therefore only in a collective is personal freedom possible.
The traditions of all dead generations press like a nightmare upon the minds of the living.
On entering science, as on entering hell, a requirement must be announced: self-respecting people must have no confidence in the other.
Depressed by worry, the poor man is insensitive even to a beautiful sight.
The kingdom of freedom really begins only where there is no more labor dictated by need and practical sense, and therefore by the nature of things this kingdom lies beyond the sphere of material production as such.
The end for which unjust means are necessary is not a just end.
Man is, in the most literal sense, not only an animal whose feature is communication, but also an animal that can only be kept apart by being in society.
Man lives with the help of nature.
Man is free not because of the negative power to avoid one or the other, but because of the positive power to manifest his true individuality.
It is not atheism that debases man, but superstition and idolatry.
Human nature is designed in such a way that man can achieve perfection only by acting for the perfection of his contemporaries, for their good.