No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
One should use common words to say uncommon things
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