One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

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.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.