What 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 SchopenhauerHe who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
Arthur SchopenhauerEmpirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer