Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

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