Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.