An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
I think [Sacrifice of Isaac] is the most important event in the Bible except for Sinai.
For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.