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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.
The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.