"Anyone can squash a bug but all..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.”

“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

“Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.”

“Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.”

“All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”

“Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.”

“If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.”

“Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.”