Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous