The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.