I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

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

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

One should use common words to say uncommon things

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.