The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.