To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
Arthur SchopenhauerIn many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
Arthur SchopenhauerGenius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
Arthur Schopenhauer