We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerBecause people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Arthur SchopenhauerEmpirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
Arthur SchopenhauerAlthough as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.
Arthur Schopenhauer