Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

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