The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the im…

- Karl Mannheim

All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mod…

- Karl Mannheim

As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of…

- Karl Mannheim

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is t…

- Karl Mannheim

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

- Karl Mannheim

[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be th…

- Karl Mannheim

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us in a new ligh…

- Karl Mannheim

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must st…

- Karl Mannheim