the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.