A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he ….

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positi….

My body and my will are one..

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted..

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner..

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom..

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind..

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer..

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received..

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake..

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction..

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to li….

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment..

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready ….

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the….

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors ….

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely giv….

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour..

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above….

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because t….

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others..