There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-….

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even….

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark..

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life..

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves..

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses..

A word too much always defeats its purpose..

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration..

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym..

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a….

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars..

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand les….

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten..

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This i….

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime..

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but i….

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever..

The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as….

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in othe….

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and….