The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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 obje…

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despi…

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…

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Quelle verite que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au dela?

There are all kinds of sources of our knowledge; but none has authority ... The fundamental mistake made by the philosophical theory of the ultimate sources of…