Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Life without pain has no meaning.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.