There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
Arthur SchopenhauerNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo be alone is the fate of all great mindsโa fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhat makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
Arthur Schopenhauer