“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.” KnowsMenLooksStatesLightThreeSocialCausesDestinyEconomicStrangeHundredDirectRelationAffairJewRaysContinentsObscuritySuccessorsRays Of Light Author:Walther Rathenau
“Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.” KnowsMenBearsRelationContemptMonkeysHostilityFanaticism Book:Literature and life, lects Source: Literature and life, lects
“Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.” KnowsMenReasonUniverseDirectRelationInstruments Book:I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy Source: I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy