If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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