All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.

Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. "What!" he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, "looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,"—"You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?"

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself; it is a child of solitude.