This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in ….

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use.

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding sta….

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thou….

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that ….

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life..

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us..

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who s….

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and de….

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a d….

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it..

The scenes and events of long ago, and the persons who took part in them, wear a charming aspect to the eye of memory, which sees only the outlines a….

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato..

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man..

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death..

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every….

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly u….

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes..

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child..

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him..