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

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.