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.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

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.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.