“ Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion… Schopenhauer
“ With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Schopenhauer
“ The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Schopenhauer
“ The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men ... and why on the contrary they are inferior to men as regards justice and less hono… Schopenhauer
“ In fact, the conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another. Nay, from this point of view, we might well cons… Schopenhauer
“ When one considers how vast and how close to us is the problem of existence—this equivocal, tortured, fleeting, dream-like existence of ours—so vast and so close that a man no sooner discovers it than… Schopenhauer
“ On a cold winter’s day, a group of porcupines huddled together to stay warm and keep from freezing. But soon they felt one another’s quills and moved apart. When the need for warmth brought them close… Schopenhauer
