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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…
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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey…
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
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The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life…
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the…
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
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One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the…
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of…
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of…
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... we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory…
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The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
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The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should…
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate…
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith…
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
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Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants'…
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