Caleb Pykkonen

“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
― Gramsci, Antonio

“Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at the most, time’s carcass.”
― Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy