“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“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
Freedom“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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”
Happiness“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
Power“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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Death“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
Death“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”
Great“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
Great“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
Happiness“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Truth“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
Best“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
Good“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
Great“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”
Truth“Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.”
Anger“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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Knowledge“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”
Money“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
Medical“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
Nature