[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!

Selfishness is the only real atheism.