"I constantly saw the false and the..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

“Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.”

“Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.”

“Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.”

“Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.”

“People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.”

“There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.”

“The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.”

“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.”