Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Die Wahrheit kann warten: denn sie hat ein langes Leben vor sich.

"The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.