"Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to e…"

"The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympat…"

"He was not an ascetic, but he despised luxury and the pursuit of artificial pleasures of the senses."

"The supposed wisdom of proverbs is mainly imaginary. As a rule, proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things. The o…"

"The beliefs appropriate to the impulse of aggression may be seen in Bernhardi, or in the early Mohammedan conquerors,…"

"A book is a friend."

"I do not think it possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism. We must start from a broad acceptance of what…"

"I think the first thing that led me toward philosophy (though at that time the word 'philosophy' was still unknown to…"

"Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater s…"

"My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died yo…"