Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

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.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.