The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.

When you think you have information from an authority, you turn your thought-making process off.

Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Ph.D., Philosopher

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

How miserable are the idle hours of the ignorant man!

Arthur Schopenhauer, Ph.D., Philosopher

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do so. The rest live their lives away in this dream not very differently from the animals, from which they are in the end distinguished only by their ability to provide for a few years ahead. If they should ever feel any metaphysical need, it is taken care of from above and in advance by the various religions; and these, whatever they may be like, suffice.