You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.