Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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?

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.