if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

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