“Compassion is the only real basis of all voluntary justice.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death.”
“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”
“To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is devilish.”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
“The brain may die, but its thoughts live on.”
“Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.”
“A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is the compendium of everything his mouth will ever say.”
“It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.”
“A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
“The world is my idea.”
“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
“Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”
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“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary.”
“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
“A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles — for then he is off his guard.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite.”
“Life without pain has no meaning.”
“Boredom is a proof of the inanity of life.”
“Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“Truth is most beautiful undraped.”
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.”
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
“We should always be more concerned with the means to solve a problem than with the solution itself.”
“Aesthetic contemplation is, above all, the redemption of the suffering of the world.”
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
“A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.”
“The universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“The world is not a factory and animals are not for our use.”
“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.”
“In action, a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively by preconceived opinion, by prejudice, than by the false appearance of things.”
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
“Life is a constant process of dying.”
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
“Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.”
“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
“To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things.”
“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence.”
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”