Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. ”

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. ”

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. ”

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. ”

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ”

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ”

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. ”

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. ”

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ”

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”