Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

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.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.