“ Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action? Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an abs… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Decept… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value. Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the tra… Arthur Schopenhauer
