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Moses Hess Quotes

1812–1875 Germany

Moses (Moshe) Hess (January or June 21, 1812 – April 6, 1875) was a Jewish French philosopher and socialist.

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He who wishes to study the barometric level of spiritual freedom must examine the relationship of the state to its Jewish subjects.

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

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