Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

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.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.