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

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.