The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.