History is as much an art as a science.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."