“If Germans are happy it means everyone else is miserable.”

“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable.”

“Germanic collectivity exists in linguistics but never existed anywhere else... [A]n "early Germanic world"... had no existence anywhere until it took form in the minds of scholars in sixteenth-century Europe and was thoughtlessly espoused by everyone else.”

“There are only two categories of happy people in the material world: fools and transcendentalists. Fools are so oblivious that they manage to convince themselves they are happy in this material prison. Transcendentalists are happy because they can see above the material dualities, and know that their parole is at hand. Everyone else is essentially miserable. This is because calamity in the material world cannot be avoided, just as water cannot be avoided in the ocean.”

“Even if victory were possible, it still couldn’t provide meaning or genuine happiness, because saying “I want to be the best” is simply the polite way of saying “I want everyone else to be worse.””

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“The meaning of life of a humankind is the integrity of its unity, enlightenment, and long-term stability for the sake of everyone's happiness.”

“The wretched and the miserable would rise to plenty of joy and happiness.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“The aim is not to be better than everyone else, it is to make everyone else better.”