Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer