Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur SchopenhauerWithout books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Arthur SchopenhauerReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur Schopenhauer