I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)
It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.
Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire t...
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and off...
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tor...
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yester...
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.