The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

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

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.