The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
From Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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