If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

The world is my representation

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.