"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity...." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

“A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.”

“The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.”

“In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.”

“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.”

“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”

“Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)”