Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name