"There is a wide difference between the..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?”

“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”

“To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.”

“Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.”

“Immitation is suicide.”

“What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.”

“Thought makes everything fit for use.”

“The great events of the world take place in the brain.”

“Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.”