Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positiv….

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world..

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is ….

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change….

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom..

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes..

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to….

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along..

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him..

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind..

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries,….

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is i….

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher..

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever..

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things..

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, po….

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none..

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot ….

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet..

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches..