Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

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

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

The world is my representation