The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.