Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Where words leave off, music begins.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
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