The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Arthur SchopenhauerAt bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
Arthur SchopenhauerTruth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearerโs mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer