Skip to content

But it is not alone the harmony of music which has such a power over the mind. The harmony of colors, every art and science, has the same power. Even the most common craft, and the most prosaic of all prose, the chase after the dollar, may take possession of a man’s soul and prostrate him in adoration before its idol.

— Joseph Dietzgen Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

Another quote →

More quotes by Joseph Dietzgen

It is a peculiarity of thought that it never stays with itself, but always digresses to other things.

Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

One who knows little may explain that little with more ease and efficacy than one who has his head stuffed full of the prescribed bunch of official wisdom.

Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

Anything which may take possession of one’s soul shares its sublimity with all other things, and is for this reason at the same time something ordinary. Without such a dialectic clarification of our consciousness all adoration is idol worship.

Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

My logic deserves its proletarian qualification for the reason that it requires for its understanding the overcoming of all prejudices by which the capitalist world is held together.

Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

Adherents of formal logic may be compared to a maker of porcelain dishes who would contend that he was simply paying attention to the form of his dishes, pots, and vases, but that he did not have anything to do with the raw material.

Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

All Joseph Dietzgen quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Dietzgen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.