All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.