The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.