“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
Freedom“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Alone“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
Freedom“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Alone“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Truth“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 which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
Death“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
Nature“Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.”
Great“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Death“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.”
Truth“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
Medical“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
Intelligence“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.”
Sympathy“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”
Learning“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Nature“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
Music“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
Best“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Intelligence“Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”
Happiness“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Art“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Alone“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”
Knowledge