"I have long held the opinion that..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.”

“Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.”

“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”

“One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.”

“It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”

“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

“Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.”

“Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!”

“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”