"I owe what is best in my..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”

“For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.”

“A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.”

“We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.”

“The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.”

“What is your legacy? Are you intentional about the sort of influence you want to have on the world around you? Being aware of how you want to be remembered gives you a perspective on what is truly important. Leadership is influence, and relationships are the foundation of leadership. Nothing is more predictive of your legacy than the quality of people you surround yourself with.”

“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”

“The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.”

“Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.”