"Vulgar people take huge delight in the..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“A 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.”

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”

“Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.”

“Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.”

“Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.”

“No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.”

“In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.”

“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.”

“Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.”