"Our life is a loan received from..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“A word too much always defeats its purpose.”

“A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.”

“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.”

“For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.”

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.”

“Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."”

“A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.”

“One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me”