People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.