Oscar Levy
médico e escritor alemão
(Redirecionado de Oscar Ludwig Levy)
Oscar Levy (1867 – 1946) foi um médico judeu alemão e escritor, conhecido por ter sido um estudioso de Friedrich Nietzsche.
- "Você observa com espanto que são judeus os elementos das forças condutoras do comunismo bem como do capitalismo, forças que empurram o mundo para a ruína material e espiritual. E, então, ao mesmo tempo tem a forte sensação de que a razão desse comportamento extraordinário seja talvez o idealismo intenso do judeu. Em relação a isso, você está corretíssimo. O judeu, quando tomado por uma ideia, nunca mais pensa em caixinhas fechadas, como fazem os teutões e os anglo-saxões, cujo hemisfério cerebral direito parece nunca saber o que seu irmão gêmeo esquerdo está fazendo: ele, o judeu, tal como o russo, imediatamente começa a praticar o que prega, e deriva a conclusão lógica a partir de seus princípios, agindo invariavelmente conforme esses princípios que aceitou. É dessa qualidade, sem dúvida, que brota sua força misteriosa – força que você, sem dúvida, condena, mas que deveria admirar até mesmo nos bolchevistas".
- - You have noticed with alarm that the Jewish elements provide the driving forces for both communism and capitalism, for the material as well as the spiritual ruin of this world. But then you have at the same time the profound suspicion that the reason of all this extraordinary behaviour may be the intense Idealism of the Jew. In this you are perfectly right. The Jew, if caught by an idea, never thinks any more in watertight compartments, as do the Teuton and Anglo-Saxon peoples, whose right cerebral hemisphere never seems to know what its left twin brother is doing: he, the Jew, like the Russian, at once begins to practise what he preaches, he draws the logical conclusion from his tenets, he invariably acts upon his accepted principles. It is from this quality, no doubt, that springs his mysterious force — that force, which you no doubt condemn, but which you had to admire even in the Bolshevists.
- - Em prefácio para The World Significance of the Russian Revolution de George Pitt-Rivers. Oxford, 1920. p. ix
- - You have noticed with alarm that the Jewish elements provide the driving forces for both communism and capitalism, for the material as well as the spiritual ruin of this world. But then you have at the same time the profound suspicion that the reason of all this extraordinary behaviour may be the intense Idealism of the Jew. In this you are perfectly right. The Jew, if caught by an idea, never thinks any more in watertight compartments, as do the Teuton and Anglo-Saxon peoples, whose right cerebral hemisphere never seems to know what its left twin brother is doing: he, the Jew, like the Russian, at once begins to practise what he preaches, he draws the logical conclusion from his tenets, he invariably acts upon his accepted principles. It is from this quality, no doubt, that springs his mysterious force — that force, which you no doubt condemn, but which you had to admire even in the Bolshevists.