To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
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.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
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 sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
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