Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

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.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.