All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
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