Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur SchopenhauerMeans at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
Arthur Schopenhauer