"We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe."

"I was supposed to devote myself only to the Talmud. But the Talmud utterly repelled me, thought I was still a pious J…"

"My main problem was, naturally, religion: from it I moved later on to the principles of ethics. First to be examined …"

"A writer? What education did I receive? None. Where did I study? Nowhere. What did I study? It does not matter. I non…"

"The vocation of man, as that of any other creature, is to be active in all his being. But man cannot act as an indivi…"

"The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I…"

"He who wishes to study the barometric level of spiritual freedom must examine the relationship of the state to its Je…"

"In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud in…"

"Ja, wir glauben, dass die Menschen noch einen höhern Beruf haben, als sich gegenseitig auszubeuten."

"Die falsche Bildung aber, welche den Menschen zum gebildeten Raubthier macht, kann immer nur den Einen auf Kosten des…"