We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.