The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its painโฆ Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Arthur SchopenhauerA man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
Arthur SchopenhauerHuman life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
Arthur SchopenhauerI observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer