"If we glance at the judgments of the greatest minds of all ages, we find those, who have at all found occasion to exp…"

"Kant says (Werke, vii. p. 381): “One must indeed make an ill reckoning of the worth of the journey (of life) if one c…"

"Schelling says (Werke, i. 7, p. 399): “Hence the veil of sadness that is spread over all Nature, the deep indestructi…"

"But what do such subjective expressions of opinion without annexed reasons prove? Must we not rather mistrust them be…"

"Imagine some one who is no genius, but a man with the best general culture of his time, endowed with all the other go…"

"Let one consider, further, that the foolish vanity of man goes so far as to prefer to seem rather than to be not mere…"

"Lastly, when we consider, as is a priori to be expected, that the same unconscious will which has created beings with…"

"In this sense Jean Paul well says: “We do not love life because it is beautiful, but because we must love it; and hen…"

"For if it is true that with the progressive intelligence of the world the illusions of existence also must be more an…"

"Finally, also, the competency or assurance against want and privation cannot be regarded as a positive gain or enjoym…"