We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter..

Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of t….

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods..

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle..

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils..

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space..

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will..

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts..

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one..

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear..

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, a….

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour..

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust..

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself..

Each day is a little life..

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them..

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness..

Money is human happiness in the abstract..

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens..

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal ….

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability..