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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The Communist Manifesto · 1848
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
The Communist Manifesto · 1848
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right · 1883
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Beyond Good and Evil · 1886
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883
A Mighty Fortress is Our God · 1529
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
Beyond Good and Evil · 1886
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"
The Sorrows of Young Werther · 1774