Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as ge….

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles..

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a question….

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt..

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough..

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, an….

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at t….

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or be….

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of..

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body..

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders..

Motives are causes experienced from within..

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another..

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents..

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost..

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why….

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer).

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted..

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and ….

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident,….

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When….