Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

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

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.