1. Citations
  2. Auteurs
  3. Moses Hess

Moses Hess citations

Moses Hess était un philosophe socialiste allemand, proche de Karl Marx et de Friedrich Engels, qui est aussi considéré comme l'un des fondateurs du sionisme, en particulier du sionisme socialiste et des kibboutzim.

✵ 21. juin 1812 – 6. avril 1875
Moses Hess photo
Moses Hess: 8 citations0 J'aime

Moses Hess: Citations en anglais

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

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Translation brought in Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 by Jonathan Frankel‏
Die europäische Triarchie (The European Triarchy)

“The vocation of man, as that of any other creature, is to be active in all his being. But man cannot act as an individual. The essence of his life activity is cooperation with other individuals of his species. Outside this cooperation, outside of society, man does not achieve any specific human activity. But so long as this co-operation is arbitrarily ruled by accidentality, so long as it is not organized, man remains limited and constricted in his life-activity….”

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Bestimmung des Menschen, p. 275
Hess' Diary

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

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Ibid
Die europäische Triarchie (The European Triarchy)

“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; hence I thought more than I had food for thought.”

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Hess' Diary

“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 economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Hess to Herzen, March 1850, Briefwechsel p. 253
Hess' Diary

“I was supposed to devote myself only to the Talmud. But the Talmud utterly repelled me, thought I was still a pious Jew-boy [Judenkind]. I wanted to satisfy my craving to be active, to do something: this craving looked for a sphere for itself because none was offered it. I did not want to be a good-for-nothing - and therefore I became a writer.”

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Hess' Diary

“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 [ie. Judaism]. It collapsed. So I wanted to base myself on naturaly religion: but my agony was so great, that this [foundation] also collapsed before my eyes. Nothing, nothing remained. I was the most miserable person in the world. I became an atheist.”

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Hess' Diary p. 40

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Moses Hess

Hess' Diary, September 16, 1836

Auteurs similaires

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel photo
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel12
philosophe allemand None
Arthur Schopenhauer photo
Arthur Schopenhauer18
philosophe allemand None
Friedrich Nietzsche photo
Friedrich Nietzsche104
philologue, philosophe et poète allemand None
Friedrich Engels photo
Friedrich Engels25
philosophe allemand et théoricien socialiste None
Karl Marx photo
Karl Marx69
philosophe, sociologue et économiste allemand None
Richard Wagner photo
Richard Wagner6
Compositeur allemand de la période romantique None
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon photo
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon10
polémiste, journaliste, économiste, philosophe et sociologu… None
Émile Durkheim photo
Émile Durkheim13
sociologue français None
Fedor Dostoïevski photo
Fedor Dostoïevski13
écrivain russe None
Honoré de Balzac photo
Honoré de Balzac193
romancier, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et é… None