“Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.” —William Shakespeare #PhilSky #BookSky #Tuesday

“Things are only mannequins and the great world-historical events are costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.” —Walter Benjamin #PhilSky #BookSky #monday

“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” —Heraclitus #PhilSky #saturday #dialectics

“Walter White did not want to rebel against the system so much as he wanted to conquer it—by any means necessary. His descent into depravity escaped him so long as validation arrived in tidy bundles of cash.” Full post: thereclamation.co/breaking-bad... #PhilSky #breakingbad #thurday

“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?” —Cormac McCarthy #PhilSky #BookSky #Wednesday

“The disarticulation of class from race, gender and sexuality has been central to the success of the neoliberal project.” —Mark Fisher #PhilSky #monday

“Every change in the social order is the consequence of new forces of production which no longer fit the old property relations.” —Friedrich Engels #PhilSky #socialistsunday

“Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.” —Paulo Freire #PhilSky #socialism #friday

“Western morality was buried under rubble alongside the bodies of Gaza’s children and the illusion of military supremacy was sunk to bottom of the Persian Gulf.” Full post: thereclamation.co/in-brief-the... #PhilSky #WeeknightWriters #thursday

“To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.” —G.W.F. Hegel #PhilSky #BookSky #wednesday

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde #PhilSky #BookSky #tuesday

“Those who can’t remember the past are condemned to have it resold to them forever.” —Mark Fisher #socialistsunday #PhilSky

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.” —William Shakespeare. #PhilSky #BookSky #saturday

“It would be better that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than I should be out of harmony with myself.” —Socrates #PhilSky #friday

“Morality is inextricably bound to how we collectively produce and reproduce our lives. It is not the characters of The Merchant of Venice who are amoral—it is the economic system that produces them.” Full article: thereclamation.co/marx-and-sha... #PhilSky #literature #Shakespeare #Thursday

“Marxism is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength.” —Rosa Luxemburg #PhilSky #Wednesday

“Education is an ornament for the fortunate, a refuge for the unfortunate.” —Democritus #PhilSky #monday

“The people come to understand that national wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organized, protected robbery.” —Frantz Fanon #PhilSky #socialistsunday

“Working people sent to their doom by capital wrapped in a nationalist disguise is an old and horrible story. Noble causes do not abound here.” Full post: thereclamation.co/ask-the-edit... #Ukraine #Russia #PhilSky #Friday

“Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.” —Karl Marx #PhilSky #thursday #socialism

“Philosophy liberates man from from fantastic ideas uncritically accepted. Consequently philosophy is the spiritual quintessence of its epoch.” —Henri Lefebvre #PhilSky #Tuesday

“There is grandeur in this view of life.” —Charles Darwin #PhilSky #socialistsunday

“Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.” —William Shakespeare, King Lear. #PhilSky #Friday

“Marx’s work is like a revelation of the unconscious. If we understand the otherwise hidden motion of capitalism it is then possible to transcend it.” Full post: thereclamation.co/marxism-and-... #PhilSky #thursday

“It is not that Communism is one of the choices; it is the only choice. We might end in a self-destructive orgy or neo-feudal capitalism. But once we choose Communism, we see it is the only way out.” —Slavoj Žižek #PhilSky #tuesday

“The foundations of a communist society are laid first of all by purposeful unification of industry under state control.” —Nikolai Bukharin #PhilSky #socialistsunday

“Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.” —Baruch Spinoza #PhilSky #saturday

“Marx does not speak of ‘adequate resistance’ when he lays out the conditions of revolution. Revolution appears as a tectonic economic shift away from the existing ruling class, first and foremost.” Full post: thereclamation.co/in-brief-rev... #PhilSky #thursday

“It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the deterioration of the Earth than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps due to some weakness in our imaginations.” —Fredric Jameson #PhilSky #wednesday

“The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.” —Epicurus #PhilSky #monday