This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.