Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.