Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

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.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.