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

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.