You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.