To be human is to transcend what merely is and to strive tow... - Georg Lukács

This quote is attributed to Georg Lukács.

"To be human is to transcend what merely is and to strive toward what could and should be."

Georg Lukács Life

Marxist Theorist Hungarian 1885–1971

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