Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
