There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.