Adolf von Harnack quotes
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“We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.”
-- Adolf von Harnack -
“People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.”
-- Adolf von Harnack
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“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”
Source : Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)
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“My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.”
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“If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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