The prevailing sentiment in the United States of North America is a base Utilitarianism with its inevitable companion, ignorance. And it is this that has paved the way for a union of stupid Anglican bigotry, foolish prejudice, and coarse brutality.

Hegel was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan, who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

When physical pleasures seduce a man from the right path, it is his sensual nature—the animal part of him—which is at fault. He is carried away by its attractions, and, overcome by the impression of the moment, he acts without thinking of the consequences.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more. But they are not what they appear - they are merely masks. There is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

In a world like this, where there is no kind of stability, no possibility of anything lasting, but where everything is thrown into a restless whirlpool of change, where everything hurries on, flies, and is maintained in the balance by a continual advancing and moving, it is impossible to imagine happiness.

Where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?

No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error.

The present age is intellectually impotent, and remarkable for its veneration of what is bad in every form.

As our body is concealed by the clothes we wear, so our mind is veiled in lies. The veil is always there, and it is only through it that we can sometimes guess at what a man really thinks; just as from his clothes we arrive at the general shape of his body.

Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

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.

You have not a sufficient idea of the wretched capacities of the masses.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

In this genre only the masterpieces are enjoyable and everything mediocre is unendurable.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate, and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

He who writes carelessly confesses at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.