... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

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

Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.