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, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

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 …

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 deat…

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…

And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into an horizontal line which is accurately straight.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.