Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.