To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.