Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.