"It takes place, by and large, with..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.”

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

“Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”

“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.”

“Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.”

“Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.”

“I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.”

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

“As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.”