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..

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..

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

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriat….

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much ….

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small..

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal..

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions ….

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satis….

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the sola….

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobs….

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed..

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust..

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

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….

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

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts..

Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we c….

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by co….

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innerm….