I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.