Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full …

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just…

Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur; Et l'ordre du destin qui gene nos pensees N'est pas toujours ecrit dans les choses passees.