It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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.