Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.
Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.