Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.