Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
Arthur SchopenhauerThat arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
Arthur Schopenhauer