Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
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.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel’s, Herbart’s and Schleiermacher’s complete philosophical works.
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
The world is my representation.