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

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.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.