"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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Source : "Hess' Diary" by Moses Hess, September 16, 1836.

Moses Hess

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“Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.”
“The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.”

Source : Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”
“Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you....”
“I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we are to "spirit" the more fully we will give ourselves in service to the world. As such, my "spiritual path" is the path that leads me to a more complete manifestation of my unique Bodhisattvic duties.”
“Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.”

Source : Ferdinand Mount (2010). “Subversive Family”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.”

Source : "Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker". "All Things Considered" with David Greene, kclu.org. December 27, 2016.
“The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that Godâ€™s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven.”
“Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old”

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