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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…
• Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…
• Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
• The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…
• In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey…
• The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
• The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life…
• 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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