Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.