A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.