A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Life is short, and the boulder against which one pushes with all one’s might moves from its spot only with long intermissions.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled underfoot before one’s time.

Autobiographies mostly arise out of narcissism or negative feelings toward others. Biographies from the pen of another person tend in their psychological traits to reflect the intellectual and spiritual nature of the writer more than that of the person portrayed.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

When one looks at humankind today, one notices with regret that quantity does not make up for quality. If quantity could only substitute for quality, we would be in better circumstances now than was Ancient Greece.

It is better for people to be like the beasts… They should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they are doing while they are doing it.

Race is a fraud. All modern people are a conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.