Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.