If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.