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Paul de Lagarde
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“What was most repulsive at the meetings was the stench of the guild, which assailed me everywhere: intellectual proletariat, that labors on its humdrum articles in the sweat of its brow, that does not know that science is to make one free and happy.”
Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul de Lagarde describing an 1851 convention of philologists, from Paul de Lagarde: Erinnerungen aus seinem Leben für die Freunde zusammengestellt (1894), S. 21, as cited in The Politics of Cultural Despair (1961), p. …
“Es ist das höchste Glück des Menschen, anzubeten, oder, milder gesagt, andre Menschen über sich anzuerkennen, die er liebt und die ihn lieben.”
Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul de Lagarde: Erinnerungen aus seinem Leben für die Freunde zusammengestellt (1894), S. 40
“Our speech has ceased to speak, it shouts; it says cute, not beautiful, colossal, not great; it cannot find the right word any more, because the word is no longer the designation of an object, but the echo of some kind of gossip about the object.”
Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zum Unterrichtsgesetze,” as cited in The Politics of Cultural Despair (1961), p. 31