Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Arthur SchopenhauerObstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur Schopenhauer