Karl Marx: Theses on Feuerbach
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”
Fedrick Engels: Anti Dhuring
Is human thought sovereign? Before we can answer yes or no we must first enquire: what is human thought? Is it the thought of the individual man? No. But it exists only as the individual thought of many milliards [billions] of past, present and future men. If, then, I say that the total thought of all these human beings, including the future ones, which is embraced in my idea, is sovereign, able to know the world as it exists, if only mankind lasts long enough and in so far as no limits are imposed on its knowledge by its perceptive organs or the objects to be known, then I am saying something which is pretty banal and, in addition, pretty barren.
Lenin: What Is To Be Done Page-211
“There are rifts and rifts,” wrote Pisarev of the rift between dreams and reality. “My dream may run ahead of the natural march of events or may fly off at a tangent in a direction in which no natural march of events will ever proceed. In the first case my dream will not cause any harm; it may even support and augment the energy of the working men.... There is nothing in such dreams that would distort or paralyse labour-power. On the contrary, if man were completely deprived of the ability to dream in this way, if he could not from time to time run ahead and mentally conceive, in an entire and completed picture, the product to which his hands are only just beginning to lend shape, then I cannot at all imagine what stimulus there would be to induce man to undertake and complete extensive and strenuous work in the sphere of art, science, and practical endeavour.... The rift between dreams and reality causes no harm if only the person dreaming believes seriously in his dream, if he attentively observes life, compares his observations with his castles in the air, and if, generally speaking, he works conscientiously for the achievement of his fantasies. If there is some connection between dreams and life then all is well.”
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When Lenin wrote, "from time to time run ahead and mentally conceive." He explains every thing about our dreams and our conceptions. To develop our mental conceptions after collecting the data about the material existence of the world, we analyze them, and try to conclude the real facts. We understand the subject as it exists and then we develop our concept about the subject, which are based on our imagination, on our dreams to make our practice in the real world better. And these concepts run ahead to the present reality. We test them with practice in the real practical scenarios, and further enhance them. But, as we know that matter continue remain in motion towards higher and higher stage, and our consciousness run behind it, and our practice maintain the link between matter and consciousness. So our dreams try to make the balance between the reality of material world and our consciousness to understand the world as it is and how it can be in the future.
So dream for future, and practice for your dreams to make them true . . .
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