The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.