The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.