The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.