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Franz Rosenzweig Quotes

1886–1929 Germany

Franz Rosenzweig (December 25, 1886 – December 10, 1929) was a German Jewish theologian and philosopher.

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Philosophy takes it upon itself to throw off the fear of things earthly, to rob death of its poisonous sting.

The Star of Redemption (1921)

There is a man in each scholar, a man who inquires and stands in need of answers. I am anxious to answer the scholar qua man but not the representative of a certain discipline, that insatiable, ever inquisitive phantom which like a vampire drains whom it possesses of his humanity.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Franz Rosenzweig (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.