Top 5 Karl Mannheim Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Karl Mannheim

2. “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 to take.”

— Karl Mannheim

3. “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 mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.”

— Karl Mannheim

4. “The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.”

— Karl Mannheim

5. “Hence insight may be regarded as the core of social knowledge. It is arrived at by being on the inside of the phenomenon to. be observed, or, as Charles H. Cooley put it, by sympathetic introspection. It is the participation in an activity that generates interest, purpose, point of view, value, meaning, and intelligibility, as well as bias.”

— Karl Mannheim

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