Quotes
Authors
Moses Hess

"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."

Source : "Briefwechsel". Book by Moses Hess, p. 253, 1959.

Moses Hess

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“The biggest thing in my life right now is my girlfriend. I love this girl. I know I love her because she told me.”
“My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.”
“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.”

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“No one knows what happens when we think therefore we can never really ever know anything”
“The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.”

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“I'm really interested not just in privacy for the individual but respect for the local communities. And I think we have a problem with both and whenever industries kind of become almost monopolistic they have to be challenged to be more responsible. We can challenge them in the press, in the courts and in regulation.”
“If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.”
“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Abide With Me”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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