The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.