alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.