But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.