If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

Life is a constant process of dying.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.