"There is something in us that is..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.”

“To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.”

“The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.”

“I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.”

“I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.”

“A good person, striving dimly,Is well aware of the right path.”

“It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.”

“The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.”

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”