12 Vladimir Lenin Quotes on Philosophy

Vladimir Lenin quotes on philosophy

10. Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

11. History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

12. A full 'definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.

13. Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness-voila the epistemological roots of idealism.

14. For any truth, if overdone (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

15. It is logical to assert that all matter possesses a property which is essentially akin to sensation, the property of reflection.

24. The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

30. It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive

32. For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

41. One cannot live in society and be free from society

58. Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism (1913)

68. It is true that liberty is precious-so precious that it must be rationed.