The world is my representation

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.