People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.