Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
Arthur Schopenhauer