Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgmen….

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects l….

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a pe….

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too..

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence..

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us uni….

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not unders….

Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary….

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last..

JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and ever….

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it..

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important el….

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and s….

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can….

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark..

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes..

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can ….

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things..

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied w….

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting..