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In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of the most he...more

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Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods. ...more

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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehensi...more

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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for ...more

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Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amoun...more

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I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the objective consideration just dis...more

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What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even preferable to its existence...more

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In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-exist...more

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We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it lies already in the nature o...more

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It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to ...more

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[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is stru...more

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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculo...more

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From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to take up one thing...more