Quotes by Theodor Lessing

"Thus even the most wretched individual breaths like a leaf in a verdant forest. His national identity supported him. A revered history receives him. A legitimate culture accepts his voice into the choir of a great community."
Theodor Lessing
"L'uomo è una scimmia senza coda, che cammina sulle zampe posteriori: gregario, onnivoro, inquieto di cuore, mendace di spirito. Ladro, lascivo, bellicoso ma versatile. Nemico delle altre creature della terra, spietatissimo avversario di sé stesso. (Simia homo sine cauda, pedibus posticis ambulans, gregarius, omnivorus, inquietus cordis, mendax mentis. Furax, salax, pugnax at artium variarum capax. Animalium reliquorum terrae hostis, sui ipsius inimicus taeterrimus). [Senza fonte, p. 92]"
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Karl Theodor Richard Lessing (8 February 1872 – 31 August 1933) was a German philosopher. He is known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his classic on Jew...