Max Eastman: Quotes about thinking

Max Eastman was American activist. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

Max Eastman: 30 quotes0 likes

“I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57

“A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory. Although few seem to realize it, Marxism rests on the romantic notion of Rousseau that nature endows men with the qualities necessary to be a free, equal, fraternal, family-like living together, and our sole problem is to fix up the external conditions. All Marx did about this with his dialectical philosophy was to change the tenses in the romance: Nature will endow men with the qualities as soon as the conditions are fixed up.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 29

“It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to "capitalism", accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.”

Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 45