Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.