Arthur Schopenhauer
“Talent is hit-or-miss; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
“Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.”
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
“The world is my representation.”