💬 Quotes

"A philosophical system does not usually collapse because it is refuted, but because it is forgotten as new standpoints arise."

"Orthodoxy, then, is not agreement with a creed, but sympathy with the spirit of Christ."

"The true church is not that which possesses a correct system of theology, but that which has most of the spirit of love and truth."

"Dogmas divide men; religion unites them. Creeds separate us from our brothers; worship and charity bring us together."

"To believe in God is not merely to hold an opinion concerning His existence, but to trust in His goodness and walk in His light."

"Error is often the shadow of some great truth, cast by the interposition of human ignorance."

"The progress of Christian thought does not consist in the discovery of new truths, but in the deeper realization of old ones."

"Ein Umriß geht um in Europa – der Umriß des Kommunismus."

"Die Geschichte aller bisherigen Gesellschaft ist die Geschichte von Klassenkämpfen."

"Die Bourgeoisie hat durch ihre Exploitation des Weltmarkts die Produktion und Konsumtion aller Länder kosmopolitisch gestaltet."

"Die Bourgeoisie produziert vor allem ihre eigenen Totengräber. Ihr Untergang und der Sieg des Proletariats sind gleich unvermeidlich."

"An die Stelle der alten bürgerlichen Gesellschaft mit ihren Klassen und Klassengegensätzen tritt eine Association, worin die freie Entwicklung eines jeden die Bedingung für die freie Entwicklung aller ist."

"Die Proletarier haben nichts in ihr zu verlieren als ihre Ketten. Sie haben eine Welt zu gewinnen. Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!"

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing."

"Cast down your bucket where you are—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded."

"There is as much difference between being shoved into a position of prominence and being able to hold it as there is in a man's standing on a mountain and his being thrown there."

"I soon learned that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least."

"The Lord brought me to see what I was, and what all my comforts were, that I had little value for them when I enjoyed them, but now how desirable would even a crumb of bread be for me."