It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
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.
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
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.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
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