Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.