Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its painโฆ Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world
Arthur SchopenhauerNOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation
Arthur Schopenhauer