It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
No one can transcend their own individuality.
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
Newspapers are the second hand of history.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.