In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
Arthur SchopenhauerSolitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
Arthur SchopenhauerHe who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
Arthur Schopenhauer