“Socrates and Christ speak to us everlastingly of mankind.”

— Constantin Brunner

Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 189
Context: Socrates and Christ speak to us everlastingly of mankind. … It belongs to the great, to the greatest men to say how things are with mankind, how they stand in its innerness and which way it is going; it belongs to Socrates and Christ. These absolutely extraordinary, eternally alive people penetrate to the groundless depth of human nature and understand the speech of ordinary people, of those who are scarcely alive from one day to the next.

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