If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

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.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.