"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."

"What does Europe owe to the Jews? Many things both good and bad, and one thing above all, at once the best and the worst: the grand moral style, the horror and the majesty of everlasting demands, ever…"

"The Jews are the most remarkable nation of world history because, faced with the question of being or not being, they preferred, with a perfectly uncanny conviction, being at any price."

"What is noble? To be able to be alone."

"The weak and the ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so."