Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
Arthur SchopenhauerWe can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Arthur SchopenhauerGaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur SchopenhauerA happy life is imposยญsiยญble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
Arthur Schopenhauer