Arthur Schopenhauer

“The truth can wait, for she lives a long life.”

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man.”

“Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry.”

“Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”

“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”