To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

- Louis Althusser

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,) is the ideol…

- Louis Althusser

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existe…

- Louis Althusser

The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, cap…

- Louis Althusser

The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

- Louis Althusser

Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seem…

- Louis Althusser

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

- Louis Althusser

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

- Louis Althusser

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious,…

- Louis Althusser