What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
Arthur SchopenhauerMemory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
Arthur SchopenhauerA man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer