Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. - Arthur Schopenhauer

However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.