The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honest….

Scoundrels are always sociable..

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of un….

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls..

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You ….

Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredib….

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune..

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy..

Everything that happens, happens of necessity..

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence..

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity..

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity ….

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial..

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed..

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it..

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.

Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction,….

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head..

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for….

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more r….

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity..