Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerMarrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
Arthur Schopenhauer