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.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

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.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.