In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Books are a narcotic.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

First impressions are always unreliable.