I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.