Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.