Vladimir Lenin Quotes on Philosophy
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Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
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History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
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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.
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Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness-voila the epistemological roots of idealism.
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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.
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It is logical to assert that all matter possesses a property which is essentially akin to sensation, the property of reflection.
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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.
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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
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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.
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One cannot live in society and be free from society
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Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation. The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism (1913)
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It is true that liberty is precious-so precious that it must be rationed.