Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
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.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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