Confession
John Mayall: Karl Marx, c. 1870 (detail)
by Karl Marx
The quality you like best
Simplicity
The quality you like best in man
Strength
The quality you like best in woman
Weakness
Your chief characteristic
Singleness of purpose
Your favourite occupation
Glancing at Netchen/bookworming
The vice you hate most
Servility
The vice you excuse most
Gullibility
Your idea of happiness
To fight
You idea of misery
To submit
Your aversion
Martin Tupper/violet powder
Your hero
Spartacus/Kepler
Your heroine
Gretchen
The poet you like best
Dante/Aeschylus/Shakespeare/Goethe
The prose writer you like best
Diderot/Lessing/Hegel/Balzac
Your favourite flower
Daphne/Laurel
Your favourite dish
Fish
Your maxim
Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me — Terence]
Your motto
De omnibus dubitandum [Doubt everything]
Your favourite colour
Red
Your favourite colour of eyes and hair
Black
Your favourite names
Jenny/Laura
The character in history you most dislike
[Unanswered]
About the Author
Karl Marx was a German philosopher.
About the Text
Marx answered this questionnaire in 1865. Details can be found here.
