"A great affliction of all Philistines is..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.”

“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”

“He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!”

“People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.”

“Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.”

“Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”

“The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.”

“To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.”