Karl Mannheim quotes

“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.”
-- Karl Mannheim

Source : "Ideology and Utopia". Book by Karl Mannheim, 1936.

#Knowledge Quotes #Character Quotes #Historical Quotes

“[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.”
-- Karl Mannheim

Source : Karl Mannheim (1936). “Ideology and utopia: an introduction to the sociology of knowledge”

#Discipline Quotes #Hens Quotes #Defense Quotes

“As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.”
-- Karl Mannheim

Source : Karl Mannheim (2013). “Ideology and Utopia”, p.68, Routledge

#Taken Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new light, it behooves us in our scientific thinking to become masters of the situation, for it is not inconceivable that sooner than we suspect, as has often been the case before in history, this vision may disappear, the opportunity may be lost, and the world will once again present a static, uniform, and inflexible countenance.”
-- Karl Mannheim

Source : "Ideology and Utopia". Book by Karl Mannheim, 1936.

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.”
-- Karl Mannheim

#Men Quotes #Historical Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.”
-- Karl Mannheim

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.”
-- Karl Mannheim

Source : Karl Mannheim (2013). “Man & Soc Age Reconstructn”, p.65, Routledge

#Social Quotes #Form Quotes #Force Quotes

“All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.”
-- Karl Mannheim

Source : Karl Mannheim (2013). “Ideology and Utopia”, p.77, Routledge

#Approach Quotes #Dependent Quotes #Objects Quotes

“We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.”

“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”

“I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.”

“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker”

“Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.”

“A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”

“Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.”

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”