"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Truth is most beautiful undraped."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Fate shuffles the cards and we play."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Better alone than amongst traitors."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Our life is to be regarded as a loan received from death, with sleep as the daily interest on this loan."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"The life of the individual is only borrowed from that of the species."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."