[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.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.