"In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of the most he...
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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"Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods. ...
"The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehensi...
"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarde...
"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for ...
"Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amoun...
"What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even preferable to its existence...
"In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-exist...
"We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it lies already in the nature o...
"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.
"It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to ...
"[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is stru...
"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculo...
"From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to take up one thing...