"To use many words to communicate few..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.”

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”

“What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.”

“Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.”

“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”

“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”

“The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.”

“The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.”

“Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.”