We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.