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To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
To the Very Learned and Experienced Mr. Johannes Bouwmeester
From B. d. S.
Most Learned Sir, special Friend,
I have not been able till now to reply to your last letter, which I received some time…
From B. d. S.
[Dear Friend],
As far as Politics is concerned, the difference you ask about, between Hobbes and me, is this: I always preserve natural Right…
Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…
October 10, 1912Berlin-GrunewaldDelbrückstr. 23 Dear Mr. Strauß!That Jewishness is an inner substance is also my assessment, which, like all reflections and insights concerning my attitude toward…
[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…
From B. d. S.
Sir,
Yesterday I received your letter, which was very welcome to me, as much because I wanted to hear some news from you as because I see that…
Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…
In attempting this psychological presentation and a psychopathological explanation of the typical characteristics of a concentration camp inmate, I may give the impression that the human being is…