Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Arthur SchopenhauerWealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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 SchopenhauerBoredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
Arthur Schopenhauer