The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

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.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.