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

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

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

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."

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.