A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

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

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.