Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end -> in old age people can say "it is bad today and it will be worse tomorrow", and so on till the worst of all. -> Life is to be measured not by the joys and pleasures but by the extent to which to it has been free from suffering,-from positive evil -> the basis is simply health, food, clothing, protection from cold and wet, hot and dry and the satisfaction of the sexual instinct. -> in the powers of reflection, memory and foresight -> the passion is the thought for what is absent and future -> intellect sums up -> for the brute it is always first time even though the same thing has happened in the past over and over again <- does not learn -> boredom is a form of suffering unknown to the brutes, only the very cleverest ones when they are domesticated show boredom. -> NEED-BOREDOM <- the two poles of life. -> A.M. - Ich denke, das Wahre Grosse in der Welt ist immer nur das was nicht gleich gefaellt, und wen der Poebel zum Gotte weiht, der steht auf dem Altar nur kurze Zeit. -> we always presume some knowledge on part of the reader and require him to make an effort to understand -> our fame is always more from the length than for the breath -> does the worm see the eagle as it soars aloft ? -> Good work is double good if it is short -> The credit you allow to another man engaged in work similar to your own or akin to it must at bottom be withdrawn from yourself and you can praise him only the expense of your own claims -> capacities of mankind -> One man will understand anything by himself, another so far as it explained to him, a third neither of himself nor if it is put clearly before him. The second class, when it rests there is a state of things that merit my rest assured of ultimately meeting with recognition. A man will praise a thing only so far as he hopes to be able to imitate it himself.

______________Style is the physiognomy of the mind, a safer index to character than a face -> nothing is more difficult than to express deep things in such a way that everyone must necessarily grasp them -> never exhibit more intellect than there really is -> simplicity is always a mark of truth, it is also a mark of genius -> style is the silhouette of thought. Obscure or bad style means a dull or confused brain. Avoid enigmatic phrases-you should know what you want to say -> use common words to say uncommon things -> never never two ore more meanings in a sentence - keine Schachtelsaetze. -> unrest is the mark of existence, continual becoming and never being is the sole form of existence. -> Restless motion is kept up by it's two agents: hunger and sexual instinct, and a little by boredom -> das Leben ist wie ein Mosaik, Du kannst kein klares Bild haben, wenn Du zu knapp dran bist. -> Life secure from need !, Arch. creates a shelter which secures from needs - man, the unnatural way in which he lives and the strain of work and emotion lead to a degeneration of the races ?, a person of vision embraces the whole life and extents far in the past and future. The more we look forward to anything, the less satisfaction we find in it (when it comes) -> Great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present-the later is reality and related to the former as something to nothing. -> every evening we are poorer by one day. Omnipresence of intellect always and everywhere characterizes the work of genius. A writer must make a sparing use of the readers time, patience and attention, works and days, the half is more than the whole. To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius (no cheating by the arts of rhetoric). Simply say what is necessary and forget what is superfluous. Thought follows the law of gravity that travels from head to paper much easier than from paper to head, so we must assist the latter passage by every means in his power.

_______________,___________He who produces some really great thought is conscious of his connection with coming generations at the moment he conceives it he feels the extension of his existence trough centuries. -> posterity, recognition, honor, gratitude, love...denied by envious contemporaries, breaking through the blind confidence of blockheads, the wilder the statement of them, the better.-> there are two levels of time,...a man may be below it, or he may be above it -> the higher intelligence reaches the nearer do his/her general ideas approach the point at which they become universal. All the wit in the world is lost upon him who has none. The common people look like men but I have never seen anything quite like them. Ein Fuerst der die Talente schaetzt, ein Freund der sich mit mir ergoetzt, die haben leider mir gefehlt. -> the point is always not mere learning but of real systematic knowledge and insight.-> emblem and coat of arms -> tree mightily shaken by the wind, but still bearing its ruddy fruit on every branch -> Motto: dum convellor mitescunt -> or -> conquassata sed ferax -> I propose a swan, peddling peddling in winter that the water might not freeze -> a cat face, observing with patience but always alert and ready to strike. -> the works of fine art, poetry and philosophy produced by a nation are the outcome of the superfluous intellect existing in it -> works are the result or quintessence of contemplative attitude, elaborated according to certain technical rules. -> genius has a double intellect-one for himself and the other for the world. Genius as a must obstructs the service of the will, and this explains the poor capacity often shown by genius in the conduct of life. The value of all masterly work in art and science is conditioned by the kinship and and capacity of the mind to which it speaks. -> fancied spectators were one and all inmates of an asylum for the blind. -> the works of genius cannot be fully enjoyed except by those who are themselves of the privileged order. Fame comes only by a slow and complex process. An empty head comes to the assistance of the empty purse about ninetenth out of...-> let  a reader beware on rushing to the newest on any given subject, it is most likely a plastercast of a cast. No greater mistake than to suppose that the last work is always more correct or changes always mean progress. If a thing is new it is seldom good, because it is good, it is only for a short time new. -> What the address to a letter should be the title to a "_____________", it must be short. Where matter is accessible to everyone or very well known, everything will depend on the form. _> intellectual superiority, it denotes, consists in forming theories that are new combinations of certain facts, but the extent of fame will depend on difficulties overcome, and the more generally known the facts are the harder it will be to form a theory that shall be true and new. -> travel, but new scenes do not always mean new ideas. -> many people for the sake of paper, cheating the reader because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. Honor and money are not found in the same purse (span. Proverb) -> be like a fixed star, the only ones that are constant, the position in the firmament is secure, they shine with a light of their own, their effect today is the same as yesterday, having no parallax, the appearance does not alter with a difference in our standpoint. We do not belong to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. -> it is only the knave who are modest-nur die Lumpen sind bescheiden. -> denn es ist kein Anerkennen, weder Vieler, noch des Einen wenn es nicht am Tage foerdert wo man selbst was moechte scheinen.