Moses Hess Quotes

#1. The eternity of the spirit does not begin after death ... but is, like God, always present.

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#2. In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.

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#3. We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.

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#4. I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.

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#5. The Christian ... imagines the better future of the human species ... in the image of heavenly joy ... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.

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#6. The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.

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#7. The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

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#8. Judaism is an historical religion.

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