Scoundrels are always sociable.

Life is a constant process of dying.

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

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.