You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.