Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. |
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. |
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. |
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. |
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. |
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own |
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible |
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. |
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. |
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. |
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. |
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts. |
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. |
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer. |
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. |