"It is difficult to keep quiet if..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”

“Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately”

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

“There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.”

“I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.”

“These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”

“Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.”

“How use doth breed a habit in a man.”