Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.