Weimar Culture Quotes

“the Vernunftrepublikaner the Republic was, in a sense, the punishment that the Germans, aristocrats and bourgeois, deserved; it was infinitely preferable to the barbarism of the right and the irresponsibility of the left;”
― Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

“The austere empiricism and scholarly imagination of the Warburg style were the very antithesis of the brutal anti-intellectualism and vulgar mysticism threatening to barbarize German culture in the 1920s; this was Weimar at its best.”
― Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider