The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.