Moses Hess

"A writer? What education did I receive? None. Where did I study? Nowhere. What did I study? It does not matter. I nonetheless became a writer immediately, because I wrote more than I have ever read; h…"

"The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social ec…"

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

"I was supposed to devote myself only to the Talmud. But the Talmud utterly repelled me, thought I was still a pious Jew-boy . I wanted to satisfy my craving to be active, to do something: this craving…"

"My main problem was, naturally, religion: from it I moved later on to the principles of ethics. First to be examined was my positive religion . It collapsed. So I wanted to base myself on naturaly rel…"

"In the Jewish Quarter was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings , my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret s…"

"Fuente: En relación a la sociedad del futuro soñada por él: Society will take care of the health and welfare of the sick and the elderly, with the disappearance of poverty, crime will disappear as wel…"

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