The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door desire follows hope. Rest forever. Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention nor is the earth worth a sigh. Bitterness and boredom is life, nothing else ever, and the world is mud. Quiet now. Despair for the last time. Fate gives us dying as a gift. Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power which rules for the common evil and the infinite vanity of it all.
In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.
Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.
Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.
He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
The end of pain we take as happiness.
There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
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