The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

These will suffice to show that the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of the people.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.

The reality is great highs, terrible lows and unrelenting stress. Don't think people want to hear about the last two.

A painter without hands who wished to express in song the picture before his mind would, by means of this substitution of spheres, still reveal more about the essence of things than does the empirical world.