The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
Arthur SchopenhauerLife to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
Arthur SchopenhauerJust as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
Arthur Schopenhauer