Christianity taught only what the whole of Asia knew already long before and even better. - Arthur Schopenhauer

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there — -days when we were younger and fresher than we are now.