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| Dialectical materialism is not of course an eternal and immutable philosophy. To think otherwise is to contradict the spirit of the dialectic. Further development of scientific thought will undoubtedly create a more profound doctrine into which dialectical materialism will enter merely as structural material. | | Uncategorized | |
| Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion. | | Logic; Photography | |
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| Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. | | Uncategorized | |
| If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. | | Uncategorized | |
| In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. | | Uncategorized | |
| In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a ''dictator'' substitutes himself for the central committee. | | Uncategorized | |
| Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. | | Uncategorized | |
| Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. | | Cynicism; Frustration; Life | |
| Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise. | | Uncategorized | |
| Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity. | | Uncategorized | |
| Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man | | Uncategorized | |
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| Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics. | | Logic; Marxism; Mathematics | |
| The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics. | | Logic; Marxism; Mathematics | |
