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
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.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. 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.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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