For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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 SchopenhauerA man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.
Arthur SchopenhauerLife is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
Arthur Schopenhauer