The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of ‘false consciousness’ always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest.
~ György Lukács

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From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created.
~ György Lukács

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Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge
to be at home everywhere.
~ György Lukács

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The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of ‘false consciousness’ always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest.
~ György Lukács

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Unmediated concepts veil the relations between objects and therefore the object which is known through them is not the capitalist system of production itself, but the ideology of its ruling class.
~ György Lukács

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Kafka was a realist.
~ György Lukács

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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács

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The dialectical concept of reality as a social process dissolves the fetishistic forms produced by the capitalist mode of production and enables us to see them as mere illusions which are not less illusory for being seen to be necessary.
~ György Lukács

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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács

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