Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.