

“If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.”
― Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VIII
― Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VIII

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
“Enjoying 'now' is a state of inertia: it is necessary to advance a step further to understand that the reason for loving 'now' is wholly dependent upon being able to strive to create the future; it definitely cannot be attained [in a state of] contented passivity.”
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