What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur SchopenhauerMensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
Arthur SchopenhauerMarrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
Arthur SchopenhauerNo one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.
Arthur Schopenhauer