It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions..

Compassion is the basis of morality..

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards..

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard..

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from ever….

Life without pain has no meaning..

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited..

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the futu….

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint a….

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked..

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence..

If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with….

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine..

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men..

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to ….

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of t….

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable..

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law..

Human life must be some form of mistake..

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-p….

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself..