For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Arthur SchopenhauerNothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer