Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.