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No one can transcend their own individuality.

Individuality Quotes

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Not giving up Quotes

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

Firsts Quotes

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Firsts Quotes

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.

Book Quotes

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Book Quotes

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

Book Quotes

The truth is that we ought to be wretched, and are so.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet’s tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Even trees must be shaken by the wind, if they are to thrive.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

Real Quotes

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.

Authority and example lead the world.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one’s condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up...

Book Quotes

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

Strong Quotes

Life is a stage where the worst actor plays the king while the best actor the beggar.

If he has a soul above the common, or if he is a man of genius, he will occasionally feel like some noble prisoner of state, condemned to work in the galleys with common criminals; and he will follow his example and try to isolate himself.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

In general, however, grand opera, by more and more deadening our musical receptivity through its three-hours duration and at the same time putting our patience to the test through the snail’s pace of what is usually a very trite action, is in itself intrinsically and essentially boring; which failing can be overcome only by the excessive excellence of an individual achievement: that is why in this genre only the masterpieces are enjoyable and everything mediocre is unendurable.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

Firsts Quotes

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