Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.